Marsha Fausti

Marsha Fausti received her BA and MA from Georgetown University where she taught for four years in the Community Scholars Program, a program sponsored by the University for Minority Student Affairs. She is completing her doctoral dissertation, entitled Negotiating the Family Nation: Gender, Race Reunion and the Exchange in Mulatto Fictions, at the John Hopkins University. Professor Fausti specializes in African American literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her teaching and research interests also include American literature of the same period, contemporary African American literature, and gender and cultural studies.

Courses Taught

spring 2004

ENGL 090.401 The

ENGL 281.401 Topics in African-American Literature

fall 2003

ENGL 080.001 American Visions: U.S. Literatures from the Founding to the Civil War

ENGL 570.401 Topics in Afro American Literature

spring 2003

ENGL 081.401 Introduction to African-American Literature

ENGL 290.402 History & Memory in Black Women's Writings

fall 2002

ENGL 080.001 Introduction to American Literature

ENGL 281.401 Family Fiction: Writing the National Body, Post-Reconstruction

spring 2002

ENGL 081.401 African-American Literature

ENGL 283.401 Autobiography in the Americas

fall 2001

ENGL 016.301 Landscapes of Identity in the Early 20th Century American Fiction

ENGL 281.401 History & Memory in AFAM Women's Writing: Narratives and Neo-Narratives of Slavery

spring 2001

ENGL 090.401 Black Women in Literature

ENGL 281.401 African-American Literature

fall 2000

ENGL 081.401 African-American Literature

ENGL 290.402 19th Century Black Women