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Miriam Thaggert is an Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies. Her research focuses on African American literature and photography, the Harlem Renaissance, American modernism, and American visual culture. Specifically, she is interested in the relationship between verbal and visual portrayals of race and the body, the subject of her first book. Her current project concerns late nineteenth and early twentieth-century technology and the spatial and visual constructions of race. She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley. She was a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow (2006-07) and a recent Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts (CESA) Faculty Fellow at the University of Iowa.
“Racial Etiquette: Nella Larsen’s Passing and the Rhinelander Case.” Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 5.2 (Spring 2005): 1-29.
Reprinted: The Norton Critical Edition of Nella Larsen’s Passing. Edited by Carla Kaplan. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 2007. 507-532.
“Divided Images: Black Female Spectatorship and John Stahl’s Imitation of Life.” African American Review 32.3 (1998): 481-491.
“Reliving Memories: Evaluating History in Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day.” World Literature Written in English 35.2 (1996): 90-102.