Faculty Connections
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      • Kirk Melnikoff
      • Lara Vetter
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      • Mark West
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      • Paula Connolly
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      • Tiffany Morin
      • Tony Jackson
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Jeffrey Leak

English
20th century African American novel
African American literature
culture
gender
racial myths
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Daniel Grano
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Erin Eldridge
Rosemary Hopcroft
Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling
Jill Massino
Elizabeth Yoder
Lisa Homann
Elisabeth Paquette
Jim Frakes
Joyce Dalsheim
Gretchen Alterowitz
Stephanie Moller
Reginald Raymer
Rachel Engstrom
Vaughn Schmutz
David Gall
Maria Delgadillo Latorre
Jason Windett
Nicole Peterson
Alan Rauch
Kathleen Hogan
Gregory Starrett
Peta Katz
Heather Perry
Ashli Stokes
Robin James
Paula Eckard
Anne-Kathrin Kronberg
Lisa Walker
Emily Makas
Jennifer Hartman
Janaka Lewis
Jill Yavorsky
Cynthia Hancock
Karen Flint
Aaron Toscano
Eric Hoenes
Lara Vetter
Elizabeth Gargano
Lynne Conner
Martha Bottia
Ann Dils
Meagan Zarwell

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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