Aaron Bartels-Swindells

(he/him/his)

2022 Ph.D. Graduate
Dissertation Advisor(s): Rita Barnard
"Impossible Realisms: Genre and Apartheid, 1902-1973"

Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University

Interests

Postcolonial Literature and Global Anglophone Cinema and Media Studies Comparative Race and Empire Studies Critical Theory History and Theory of the Novel Modernism and Modernity Visual Culture

Articles and Book Chapters

"Genre Fever" Co-authored with Jane Hu. Post45 Contemporaries (2020)

"Unmasking Communism: Ayi Kwei Armah, Black Marxism, and the Cultural Turn, 1967-1984" African Identities (2020)

"The Metapragmatics of the ‘‘Minor Writer’’: Zoë Wicomb, Literary Value, and the Windham-Campbell Prize Festival" Representations (2017)

Awards

2020 H+U+D Mellon Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

2018 Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF)

2017 FLAS Fellowship

2017 Foreign Language Area Studies Summer Fellowship

2017 Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad Grant

2016 FLAS Fellowship

News & Events

2023/05/12

Penn English Celebrates Graduating Ph.D. and M.A. Students

2022/11/08

Dissertation Defense: Aaron Bartels-Swindells

2019/01/23

Aaron Bartels-Swindells WIP: "Of 'Masks and Marx': Ayi Kwei Armah's Afrocentrism and Decolonial Aesthetics, 1967-1984"

2019/01/22

GEA pre-Doctoral Funding Panel and Discussion

2018/09/24

Aaron Bartels-Swindells WIP - CANCELED

2018/04/20

PhD students Aaron Bartels-Swindells, Tajah Ebram, and Sam Waterman awarded 2018-2019 SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships

2016/11/18

GEA Funding Workshop

Courses Taught

fall 2017

ENGL 200.303 The Great African Novel

spring 2016

ENGL 102.405 Vietnam War in Literature and Film