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Undergraduate Lecture Courses

The American Novel
Early African American Literature
American Fiction, 1912-1945
Early African American Literature
African American Literature Since the Twenties
Interracial Dynamics in American Literature, Culture & Society
African American Literature Since th Sixties
The American Political Novel

Undergraduate Seminars 

The Harlem Renaissance
Toni Morrison & Ernest J. Gaines
Richard Wright
Afro-American Literature at the Turn of the Century
Contemporary Afro-American Fiction
Nineteenth Century Afro-American Prose
Afro-American Women's Fiction
African-American Detective Fiction
Word Up: The Oral Tradition in African-American Poetry
Multi-Ethnic Detective Fiction

Graduate Seminars
The Modern Afro-American Novel
Charles W. Chestnutt & Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Construction of Gender in Afro-American Fiction
Alice Walker
The Harlem Renaissance
Introduction to Afro-American Studies
Black American Literature and Culture, 1965-69
Politics in the African American Novel
The Literature of Slavery & Abolition
The Construction of Sexuality in African American Fiction
Early Black American Literature
Frederick Douglass & Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Post-Reconstruction/Pre-Renaissance: African American Literature at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
African American Fiction in the 1960s
African American Literature & the Left