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Sandy Alexandre
Assistant Professor  .  Office: 14N-422  .  PBX: 617-253-4450  .  Email: alexandy@mit.edu

Sandy Alexandre Research Interests: Nineteenth and Twentieth-century American and African-American literature and culture

Sandy Alexandre does research work in black literary and cultural studies. Her other research interests include American, visual, and southern studies. She is currently in the process of completing her first book, Strange Fruits in the Garden: Surveying the Properties of Lynching, which expands upon the argument propounded by anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells concerning the connection between black dispossession and racial violence. She earned her B.A. in English from Dartmouth College in 1997. She received her Ph.D. in English Language & Literature from the University of Virginia in 2006. She is active in the MIT community and has recently published an on-line essay on her views regarding the intersection of race and pedagogy. You can read her essay at http://web.mit.edu/ccrr/voices/faculty/alexandre.html.

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Selected Articles

"Out-On a Limb: The Spatial Politics of Lynching Photography," Mississippi Quarterly (Forthcoming).

"From Sight to Sore Eyes: On the Limits of an Ocular Logic," (Submitted).

"Hers & His(trees): Gendering the Memory of Racial Violence in Beloved," American Literature (Submitted).

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.

Review of Open Gate: An Anthology of Haitian Creole Poetry, ed. Jack Hirschman and Paul Laraque. Virginia Quarterly Review 78 (Spring 2002): 65-66.

Review 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 Diaspora in the United States, ed. Edwidge Danticat (New York: Soho Press, 2001): 174-187.

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Classes Taught

21L.003 Reading Fiction

21L.006 Introduction to American Literature

21L.501 The American Novel

21L.504 Race & Identity in American Literature

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