Glenda Carpio

Chair of the Department of English
Harvard College Professor
Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature
*Currently accepting graduate student advisees
carpio
Barker 162
617-495-7868
carpio@fas.harvard.edu
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Office hours: Wednesday 3-5pm

Education: B.A., Vassar (1991)
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley (2002) 

Interests: The Literature, History and Culture of New World Slavery; African-American Literature and Visual Art; Anglophone Caribbean Literature; Native American and Latino/a US Literature, Migration and Refugee Studies. 

Selected Works:
Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Literature, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy (Columbia UP, 2023); (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Richard Wright (Cambridge UP, 2019);  "' Am I Dead?': Slapstick Antics and Dark Humor in Contemporary Immigrant Fiction" in Critical Inquiry (Winter 2017); On the Whiteness of Kara Walker's Marvelous Sugar Baby (ASAP /Journal, September 2017); (co-ed. with Werner Sollors) African American Literary Studies: New Texts, New Approaches, New Challenges (Cambridge UP 2011);  "‘Any Gum, Chum?': Thomas Pynchon and the Culture of Modern War,” New Literary History of American Literature, (Harvard UP, 2009); Laughing Fit to Kill; Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery (Oxford UP. 2008).