Tajah Ebram

(she/her/hers)

M.A. English, University of Pennsylvania (2015)

B.A. English & Black Women’s Studie minor, University of Maryland, College Park, summa cum laude, (2014)

Interests

African American and Ethnic American Literatures African American Studies Digital Humanities Environmental Humanities Gender and Sexuality Studies Visual Culture

Articles and Book Chapters

" “Can’t Jail the Revolution”: Policing, Protest, and the MOVE Organization in Philadelphia’s Carceral Landscape" in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (2019)

Awards

2019 SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF)

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

2018 Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students

News & Events

2019/10/19

The Legacy of 1619 Conference - Saturday

2018/04/23

Tajah Ebram wins 2018 Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students

2018/04/20

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

2018/04/03

JRS "Radical Black Feminisms: Writing the Carceral State" creates digital anthology

2018/01/19

"Against the Current: Collective Works on State Violence, Identity, and Resistance"

Courses Taught

fall 2017

ENGL 200.302 Radical Black Feminisms: Writing the Carceral State