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Jeffrey Leak

English
20th century African American novel
African American literature
culture
gender
racial myths
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Jeffrey LeakEducation

  • Ph.D., Emory University, 1997
  • M.A., University of Delaware, 1992
  • B.A., Campbell University, 1990

Areas of Interest

  • Twentieth and Twenty First-Century African American Novel
  • Gender and Cultural Studies
  • Biography

Selected Publications and Presentations

  • Visible Man: The Life of Henry Dumas. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2014.
  • Racial Myths and Masculinity in African American Literature. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2005.
  • Rac(e)ing to the Right: Selected Essays of George S. Schuyler. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2001.
  • “Henry Dumas and the Challenge of Biography,” American Literature Association Symposium on Biography, Puerto Vallarta , Mexico , 7-10 December 2006.

Courses Taught

Undergraduate Level

  • Twentieth-Century Black Autobiography ENGL 4050
  • Introduction to African American Literature, ENGL 2090/2301
  • American Literature1820-1865, ENGL 3141
  • American Literature 1920-Present, ENGL 3143
  • Masculinity in African American Literature, ENGL 4050
  • Twentieth-Century American Novel, ENGL 4144
  • African American Literary Criticism and Theory, ENGL 4158
  • Black Family in Fiction and Film, LBST 2212

Graduate Level

  • Twentieth-Century American Novel, ENGL 5144
  • Race and Gender in American Literature, ENGL 6685
  • Literature and Culture of the Black Arts Movement, ENGL 6050

Professional Appointments

Faculty Appointments

  • UNC Charlotte since 1998

Administrative Appointments/Honors

  • Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR) to the NCAA, current
  • Chair of the Chancellor’s Advisory Council on Intercollegiate Athletics, current
  • Martin Scholars Program Faculty Fellow, 2017-current
  • Member, Inaugural Class of the Emerging Leaders Program of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), 2016
  • Faculty President, UNC Charlotte Faculty Council, 2015-2016
  • Director, UNC Charlotte Center for the Study of the New South, 2011-2015
  • Faculty Associate, UNC Charlotte Academic Affairs, January 2007-January 2008
  • Interim Director, McNair Scholars Program, 2001

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