Ahearn,Barry                            

Albrecht,Thomas                        

Burke,Molly                                

Codr,Dwight                           

Cooley,Peter                                   

Desai,Gaurav                                      

Dinerstein,Joel                             

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Elmwood,Victoria                    Foster,Ken                                

Foy,Roslyn                             

Gelley,Ora                                         

Goldman,Jonathan                                   Johnson,T.R.                                                       Kaufmann,David        

Koritz,Amy                                            

Kuczynski,Michael                             

Leland,Jacob                                       

Letter,Joe                                          

Lewis,Nghana                                   

Livingston,Judith                          

Mark,Rebecca                                    

Morris,Paula                                         

Munkhoff,Richelle                              

Nair,Supriya                                        

Oldman,Elizabeth                                     

Pizer,Donald                                        

Rothenberg,Molly       

Smith,Felipe                                          

Snare,Gerald                                        

Toulouse,Teresa                         

Travis,Molly           

  Felipe Smith

Associate Professor of English

Norman Mayer Room 113

Telephone: (504) 862-8158

Fax: (504) 862-8958

E-mail: felipes@tulane.edu

Felipe Smith earned the Ph.D. from Louisiana State University in 1988, after completing his dissertation, "The Dark Side of Paradise: Race and Ethnicity in the Novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald." He accepted a position as an assistant professor in English at Tulane University in 1988, where he has taught American literature, African-American literature, and literature and culture of the African diaspora. Recent courses include “Primitivism /Modernism,” “Le Tumulte Noir: Black Expatriates in Paris,” “New Orleans in Words and Music,” and “Modern Alienations.” In 1995 he was awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor. He was one of the founders of the program in African and African Diaspora Studies, for which he served as Co-Director and currently serves as Director. He is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Ford Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation. His 1998 book American Body Politics: Race, Gender, and Black Literary Renaissance, published by the University of Georgia Press, addresses the cultural politics of the racial and gender classification of American bodies as a shaping influence in the development of writers such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Charles W. Chesnutt, Pauline Hopkins, and James Weldon Johnson around the turn of the last century. He has also published essays on Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Claude McKay, and the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club. He is a founding member of CubaNola Collective, an organization that promotes cultural interchange between the U.S. and Cuba. He is currently working on his second book, a manuscript that treats issues of race and primitivism in modernist literature, The Dark Side of the Modern: Race and the Jazz Age.