Miriam Thaggert
African-American Literature & Culture; Modernism; Visual Culture
Miriam Thaggert is an Associate Professor of English and African-American Studies. Her research focuses on 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century African-American literature, American modernism, and American visual culture. Her first book, Images of Black Modernism (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010) examines Harlem Renaissance aesthetic theories, fiction, and photography and the formation of early-twentieth-century African-American modernism. She is currently working on a second book project on 19th-century forms of technology and the perception and categorization of national and racial identities. Her research interests also include critical race theory, film and popular culture, and photography. She was a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and received her Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley.