Ally Barber
Entry Year: 2020
Education
M.A., University of St. AndrewsB.A., University of St. Andrews
Biography
I work with twentieth and twenty-first century U.S. ethnic literature. My dissertation investigates the relationship between master narratives of gender and race and traumatic histories in literature by U.S. ethnic women writer.
Area of Expertise
- Postmodernism (Post 1945).
- Contemporary (21st Century)
- African American Literature
- Latinx Literature
- Native American and Indigenous Literatures
- American Literature
- Gender and Sexuality Studies.
- Narrative Theory
Publications
“I’m leaving evidence": Traumatic Rememory, Identity, and the Body in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora.” MELUS, vol. 50., no. 1, 2025, pp. 120-140.
Review of José O. Fernandez. Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures. MELUS, vol. 49, no. 1, 2024, pp. 221-223.
