Department of African American Studies
Directory
Rodney Taylor
| Title: | Race, Freedom, and Democratic Citizenship Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Department: | Department of African American Studies Department of African American Studies |
| Email: | taylor_r@sc.edu |
| Phone: | 803-777-0645 |
| Office: | Gambrell 258 |
Education
Ph.D., Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2020
M.A., Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2012
B.A., California University of Pennsylvania, 2010
Areas of Specialization
19th-Century African-American Literature and Culture
Cultural Studies of the South
US Founding Documents
Service to the Profession
Secretary/Treasurer, American Humor Studies Association
Teaching
AFAM 200: Freedom Papers: Narrative of Race and Nation
SOST 302: Introduction to Southern Studies: Reconstruction to Civil Rights
Publications
“At the Foot of the Racial Mountain: Pauline Hopkins’s Southern Exodus in Peculiar Sam: or, The Underground Railroad.” Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Cultures. Forthcoming
“How a Black Writer in 19th-Century America Used Humor to Combat White Supremacy.” The Conversation. 25 February 2022