Research Interests: African-American literature and culture, visual studies, women's & gender studies, performance studies, and material culture studies.
Sandy Alexandre's first book is titled The Properties of Violence: Claims to Ownership in Representations of Lynching. She is currently working on her second book project, The Plays, the Thing: The Drama of Objects in Black Theater & Performance, which analyzes black theatrical deployments of props, objective correlatives, and other symbolic objects. She received her Ph.D. in English Language & Literature from the University of Virginia in 2006.
"From the Same Tree: Gender and Shared Iconography in Representations of Violence in Beloved," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society, Vol. 36, No. 4, Summer 2011: 915-940.
"Surfeit of Influence: Listening as Retreat and Antidote in TopDog/UnderDog," The Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 22 No. 3 (Fall 2010) 43-68.
"‘[The] things what happened with our family’: Property & Inheritance in August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson," Modern Drama, 52.1 (2009): 73-98.
(Awarded the Modern Drama Award for Outstanding Article for the year 2009)
"Out—On a Limb: The Spatial Politics of Lynching Photography," Mississippi Quarterly, Winter-Spring 2008, 61 No.1-2.: 71-112
Interview-essay with Edwidge Danticat: "My Turn in the Fire," Transition 93 (2003): 110-128.
Annotations for Ralph Ellison, "Remembering Richard Wright," "Letter to Stanley Edgar Hyman" and James Baldwin, "Going to Meet the Man" in Norton Anthology of African American Literature 2nd edition, eds. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay (New York: Norton, 2003): 1599-1617; 1750-1761.
Rev. of Open Gate: An Anthology of Haitian Creole Poetry, ed. Jack Hirschman and Paul Laraque. Virginia Quarterly Review 78 (Spring 2002): 65-66.
Rev. of From My People: 400 Years of African-American Folklore, ed. Daryl Cumber Dance. Virginia Quarterly Review 78 (Autumn 2002): 118.
"Exiled" in The Butterfly’s Way: Voices From the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States, ed. Edwidge Danticat (New York: Soho Press, 2001): 174-187.
21L.003 Reading Fiction
21L.006 Introduction to American Literature
21L.501 The American Novel
21L.504 Race & Identity in American Literature
