Faculty Guide

Title

Associate Professor of English

African and Afro-American Studies
American Studies
English

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

AAAS	79b	Afro-American Literature of the Twentieth Century
AAAS	136a	Black Feminist Thought
ENG	1a	Introduction to Literary Studies
ENG	16a	Slavery and Self-Making in African American Literature
ENG	57b	Writing the Nation: James Baldwin, Philip Roth, Toni Morrison
ENG	70b	Science Fiction
ENG	87a	Sex and Race in the American Novel
ENG	151a	Queer Studies
ENG	167b	20th-century Black Fiction
ENG	207a	Race, Desire, and the Literary Imagination
ENG	227b	American Encounters: Faulkner, Baldwin, Roth, Morrison

Scholarship

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

Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah. Against the Closet: Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012.

Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah. "“The Trope of the Tongue: Reading Alice Walker’s Liberationist Narratives.”." Annual International Conference on Narrative, 2011.

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.