Faculty Guide

Title

Assistant Professor of English

English and American Literature

Expertise

American and African American Literature and Culture; Critical Race Theory; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Multiethnic Feminisms

Awards and Honors

Darwin T. Turner Award for Best Essay in African American Review, 2008, 2006 (2008)

Ford Foundation Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship (2008)

Darwin T Turner Award, MLA Division on Black American Literature and Culture (2006)

Alice Richardson Outstanding Dissertation Award, New York University (2005)

Shortell-Holzer (Dean's) Dissertation Fellowship, New York University (2004)

Ford Foundation Fellowship (2003)

Courses Taught

ENG	11a	Introduction to Literary Method
ENG	16a	Slavery and Self-Making in African American Literature
ENG	57b	Writing the Nation: James Baldwin, Philip Roth, Toni Morrison
ENG	87a	Sex and Race in the American Novel
ENG	151a	Queer Studies
ENG	167b	The Postmodern African American Novel
ENG	197b	Within the Veil: African American and Muslim Women's Writing
ENG	207a	Race, Desire, and the Literary Imagination
ENG	227b	American Encounters: Faulkner, Baldwin, Roth, Morrison
USEM	59a	U.S. Slavery and the Popular Imagination

Scholarship

Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah. "Tracings: Black Female Figuration in Inner and Outer Space(s)." Callaloo (2009). (forthcoming)

Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah. ""Simply a Menaced Boy:" Analogizing Color, Undoing Dominance in James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room." African American Review 41.3. Fall 2007 (2008): 477-486.

Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah. "Harriet Ann Jacobs." The Encyclopedia of Women in World History. 2007.

Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah. "White Disavowal, Black Enfranchisement, and the Homoerotic in William Faulkner's Light in August." The Faulkner Journal Volume 22.1 & 2. Fall/Spring (2007).

Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah. ""The Strangest Freaks of Despotism": Queer Sexuality in Antebellum African Slave Narratives." African American Review 40.2. Summer (2006): 223-237.