Keyana Parks

2019 Ph.D. Graduate
Dissertation Advisor(s): Salamishah Tillet
"The Absurdity of Colorblindness: Post Blackness in Twenty-first Century African American Satire to Real(ly) Absurd: Post Black Paradoxes in African American Satire"

Assistant Professor of English, UMass Boston

Interests

African American Studies Gender and Sexuality Studies

News & Events

2019/07/11

Keyana Parks' Dissertation Defense

2019/02/14

GEA Workshop: "Approaches to the Dissertation"

2019/01/15

Mock Job Talk: Keyana Parks, "Pure Fabulation: Satirizing Colorblind Constructions of Black Mobility in the Drama of Lynn Nottage”

2018/04/25

Keyana Parks awarded Ford Dissertation Completion Fellowship

2017/11/27

Keyana Parks (WIP)

Courses Taught

fall 2016

ENGL 200.305 Black Humor: Comedy and Satire in African American Culture

spring 2015

ENGL 104.407 The Twentieth Century