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"Blackness and Nationality: The Case of Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban Racial Narrative"

Mark A. Sanders, Emory University

Thursday, February 16, 2012
4:00PM, HIB 135

Mark A. Sanders (Ph.D., Brown University, 1992) is Professor of English at
Emory University. He specializes in early twentieth-century American and
African American literature and culture, more specifically, the
connections between "mainstream" American modernism and the Harlem
Renaissance. His research interests also include American and African
American poetics, race theory, the African American novel, African
American autobiography, and Afro-Cuban and Afro-Latino literature and
culture. Professor Sanders teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on
nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century African American
literature and culture, exploring issues of racial and cultural identity,
citizenship, and freedom. He also teaches courses on Afro-Cuban literature
and culture of the colonial, republican, and revolutionary eras.

He is the author of A Black Soldier's Story: The Narrative of Ricardo
Batrell and the Cuban War of Independence (a translation of Para la
historia: Apuntes autobiográficos de la vida de Ricardo Batrell Oviedo),
Minneapolis:University of Minnesota Press, 2010; Sterling A. Brown's A
Negro Looks at the South (co-edited with John Edgar Tidwell) New York:
Oxford University Press, 2007; and Afro-Modernist Aesthetics and the
Poetry of Sterling A. Brown, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999.

The presentation of Dr. Sanders is hosted by UC Los Angeles and UC
Irvine, and sponsored by the UC-Cuba Academic Initiative, the Caribbean
Studies Group (UCLA), ADVANCE (UCI), the Program in African American
Studies (UCI) and the History Department (UCI).