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Patrick Alexander
Associate Professor of English and African American Studies, University of Mississippi
University of Mississippi
Education/Degree:
1 English English (Duke University)
About
Dr. Patrick Elliot Alexander is Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Mississippi and Cofounder and Director of the University of Mississippi Prison-to-College Pipeline Program. Dr. Alexander is the author of From Slave Ship to Supermax: Mass Incarceration, Prisoner Abuse, and the New Neo-Slave Novel (Temple University Press, 2018), coeditor of Teaching Literature and Writing in Prisons (Modern Language Association of America, 2023), and has published on incarceration and African American confinement literature in The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and College Literature (Johns Hopkins University Press, Spring 2024). His articles on teaching African American literature in prison are published in Humanities, the Journal of African American History, south: a scholarly journal, and Reflections: A Journal of Writing, Service-Learning, and Community Literacy.
Current Work
Dr. Alexander's scholarship engages literary work by and about incarcerated people and their supporters as represented in African American literature and culture. His published books and articles intersect the fields of literary studies, critical prison studies, and Black studies. Dr. Alexander also centers the considerations and critiques of incarcerated postsecondary learners in his published work within the emerging Higher Education in Prison (HEP) field; he was inducted into the L.C. Dorsey Research Honor Society in 2023 for his commitment to this methodology in a volume he coedited recently, Teaching Literature and Writing in Prisons (Modern Language Association of America, 2023), and in the four HEP articles he published previously. Dr. Alexander is currently writing a book about post-Black Power-era formerly incarcerated writers and their supporters.
Research Area Keyword(s)
African American Literary Criticism and Theory, Critical Prison Studies, Black studies, Higher Education in Prison