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Michael Awkward

1986 Ph.D. Graduate
Dissertation Advisor(s): Houston A. Baker, Jr.
"An Intertextual Reading of Black Women's Novels"

https://lsa.umich.edu/english/people/faculty/michawk.html

Doctoral Dissertations Chaired

2004

Amina Gautier "Encoding Vision, Envisioning Race"

Courses Taught

spring 2003

ENGL 281.401 Constituting Blackness: The Making of a Canon of 20th Century Afro-American Literature  
ENGL 770.401 'Not Being a Man'?: Representations of Masculinity in 20th-Century Black American Literature, Film, and Popular Music  

fall 2002

ENGL 016.401 Topics in Literature: Reading Contemporary American Autobiography  
ENGL 081.401 African-American Literature canceled  
ENGL 293.301 Topics in Literature and Society  

spring 2002

ENGL 770.401 Fingering the Jagged Grain: American Autobiography at the End of the 20th Century  

fall 2001

ENGL 081.401 African-American Literature  
ENGL 290.402 Topics in Women and Literature  

spring 2001

ENGL 016.401 Reading Contemporary American Autobiography  
ENGL 570.401 Afro-American Literature  

spring 2000

ENGL 281.401 Topics in African-American Literature  

spring 1999

ENGL 569.401 Interdisciplinary Black Expressive Cultural Study  

fall 1998

ENGL 081.401 African-American Literature  
ENGL 285.401 Topics in Contemporary American Literature  

spring 1998

ENGL 285.402 Topics in Contemporary American Literature  
ENGL 570.401 African American Literature  

fall 1997

ENGL 081.401 African-American Literature  
ENGL 284.401 Narratives in Harlem Renaissance  

spring 1997

ENGL 284.402 Narratives of the Harlen Renaissance  
ENGL 570.401 Living in the Now:  

fall 1996

ENGL 081.401 African-American Literature