Department of English
Gershun Avilez
2009 Ph.D. Graduate
Dissertation Advisor(s): Thadious Davis
"The Wake of Blackness: Aesthetic Ambivalence and the Post-Black Arts Era"
Assistant Professor of English & African American Studies at the University of North Carolina chapel Hill
Dissertation Advisor(s): Thadious Davis
"The Wake of Blackness: Aesthetic Ambivalence and the Post-Black Arts Era"
Assistant Professor of English & African American Studies at the University of North Carolina chapel Hill
GerShun Avilez specializes in (late) 20th century and 21st century African American and Black Diasporic literary cultures. Central concerns in his work include: theories of the body, law & legality, gender expression, and literary lineages.
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2019/10/18