#  Glenda Carpio 

Chair of the Department of English

Harvard College Professor

Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature 

*Currently accepting graduate student advisees 

 

 

 



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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).



 

 

 





 

 

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