Dr. Sheri-Marie Harrison
Dr. Harrison's researches and teaches Caribbean literary and cultural studies, contemporary global Anglophone literature, and mass culture of the African Diaspora. She is also the Faculty Fellow for Faculty Development, Diversity, and Inclusion in the College of Arts and Science. Her research areas are contemporary literature and African Diaspora literature and culture. Dr. Harrison is a faculty member in the Department of English.
My first book Difficult Subjects: Negotiating Sovereignty in Postcolonial Jamaican Literature was published by the Ohio State University Press in 2014, and my research has been published in various venues including Modern Fiction Studies, Small Axe, The Oxford Research Encyclopedia and The Los Angeles Review of Books. I have a forthcoming essays in a multi-volume edited collection Caribbean Literature in Transition, published by the Cambridge University Press, a special issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies on “Literary Criticism after Postcritique," The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic, and The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature. I am also currently working on a manuscript tentatively titled After the Beginning Ends: Contemporary Fiction and Iconoclasm and an author study of the work of Marlon James tentatively titled Marlon James: Fiction at the End of Self.