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Martha Pitts
Assistant Professor of English Language & Literature
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Education/Degree:
1 English (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge)
About
Dr. Pitts is an assistant professor of english, and teaches the literature of a multicultural America using texts that engage students with conflicting and competing ideas of Americanness. She has taught at several institutions, including Georgetown University, Howard University, Towson University, and Louisiana State University. Her work has appeared in Staging Women's Lives in Academia: Gendered Life Stages in Language and Literature (SUNY Press 2017), Patricia Hill Collins: Reconceiving Motherhood (Demeter Press 2014), Callaloo, Times-Picayune, Washington City Paper, Gambit Weekly, and in the Ms. blog.
Current Work
With Professor Barbara McCaskill, from the University of Georgia, she is preparing an annotated edition of the memoir Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed (1926) by the black Seattle-based evangelists Emma and Lloyd P. Ray for West Virginia University Press's series called Regenerations: African American Literature and Culture.
Research Area Keyword(s)
19th and 20th century American literature, 19th century African-American literature, feminist theory, U.S. life writing