Nathan Grant

 

                                                                                                           

Associate Professor

Department of English

306 Clemens Hall

SUNY at Buffalo

Buffalo, NY 14260-4610

Ph: 716/645-2575, x1127

Fx: 716/645-5980

e-mail: ngrant@buffalo.edu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Publications

 

Book

                        Masculinist Impulses: Toomer, Hurston, Black Writing and Modernity (University of Missouri Press, 2004).

 

 

Refereed articles in journals

“Owen Dodson: Poet, Fiction Writer, Playwright: A Special Section” (with previously unpublished poems of Dodson’s, Nathan Grant, ed.), Callaloo 20:3 (1998), pp. 619-626.

 

“Extending the Ladder: A Remembrance of Owen Dodson,” Callaloo 20:3, (1998), pp. 640-645. 

 

“Sacrifices of Self and Voice in Jean Toomer’s ‘Kabnis,’” Q/W/E/R/T/Y 7 (October 1997, Université de Pau, France), pp. 137-144. 

 

“Men, Women and Culture: A Conversation with August Wilson,” American Drama 5:2 (Spring 1996), pp. 100-122.

 

“Hughes/Lawrence/Douglass: Power and Resistance in The Ways of White Folks,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History 19:2 (Spring 1995), pp. 43-52. 

 

Contributions to books

“Mirror’s Fade to Black: Misogyny and Class Ideation in Cosby and Martin.” Mapping the Contours of Progressive Black Masculinities, Athena D. Mutua, ed., Routledge (forthcoming).

 

“Teaching Jean Toomer’s Cane.”  Teaching the Harlem Renaissance, Michael Soto, ed.,  Indiana University Press (forthcoming). 

 

“William Wells Brown,” “Henry Highland Garnet,” and “John B. Russwurm,” in The World of Frederick Douglass, 1818-1895, vol. 2 of the African-American History Reference Series, Paul Finkleman, gen. ed., Oxford University Press (forthcoming).

 

“Countee Cullen,” in African American Writers, vol. 1, 2nd ed., Valerie A. Smith, gen. ed., Charles Scribner & Sons, 2001, pp. 135-147.  

 

“Albert Boni” (pp. 173-174) and “Olivia Ward Bush-Banks” (pp. 81-82), in the American National Biography, John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, gen. eds., Oxford University Press, 1999.

 

“Notes of a Prodigal Son: James Baldwin and the Apostasy of Soul.” Soul: Black Power, Politics and Pleasure, Monique Guillory and Richard C. Green, eds., NYU Press, 1998, pp. 32-44.

 

“Innocence and Ambiguity in the Films of Charles Burnett.” Representing Blackness: Issues in Film and Video, Valerie A. Smith, gen. ed., Rutgers University Press, 1997, pp. 135-155. 

 

“The Frustrated Project of Soul in the Drama of Ed Bullins.” Language, Rhythm, and Sound: Black Popular Cultures toward the Twenty-first Century, Joseph Adjaye and Adrianne Andrews, eds., University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997, pp. 90-102.

 

“Bruce Nugent” (p. 550), “Ed Bullins” (pp. 109-111), “Ben Caldwell” (pp. 116-117), “Kingsley B. Bass, Jr.” (pp. 53-54 ), “Clara’s Ole Man” (p. 152), “In New England Winter” (p. 386), and “Goin' a Buffalo” (pp. 319-320).  The Oxford Companion to African American Literature, William L. Andrews, Trudier Harris and Frances Smith Foster, gen. eds., Oxford University Press, 1997.

 

Book reviews

“Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life by Tiffany Ruby Patterson.”  African American Review, forthcoming.

 

“Tough Notes:  A Healing Call for Creating Exceptional Black Men by Haki R. Madhubuti” and  “Constructing the Black Masculine by Maurice O. Wallace.” The Washington Post Book World, Wednesday, September 4, 2002, p. C11. 

 

“Ed Bullins: A Literary Biography by Samuel A. Hay.” African American Review 33:2 (Summer 1999), pp. 369-371.

 

“The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White by George Hutchinson.” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 22:1 (Winter 1998), pp. 88-94. 

 

Invited lectures

 

“Dark Princess Comes Back to the Future:  The Valuation of Halle Berry’s Role in Swordfish,” UB Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender (IREWG) Open-Class Lecture Series, 25 September 2002.

 

Conference presentations

 

“Promised Lands: The New Jerusalem’s Inner City and John Edgar Wideman’s Philadelphia Story,” John Edgar Wideman Society, American Literature Association, Long Beach, CA, 30 May-1 June 2002.

 

Lead discussant, Panel on Popular Culture, “Exploring, Constructing and Sustaining Progressive Black Masculinities,” Baldy Center for Social Policy, University at Buffalo, 12-14 April 2002.  Presentation title: “Misogyny and Class Ideation in Cosby and Martin.”

 

“The Black Man’s White Burden: Masking and Masculinity in Zora Neale Hurston’s Seraph on the Suwanee,” Nordic Association of American Studies (NAAS) Millennial Conference, Turku, Finland, 19 August 1999. 

 

Session Chair, “Diaspora and Performance,” Second International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Tampere, Finland, 29 June 1998.

 

“Zora Neale Hurston’s Beasts of Burden: Strategies of Nation and the ‘New Negro,’” Mapping African America Conference, Collegium for African American Research (CAAR), Liverpool, England, 25 April 1997.

 

Session Chair, “Remapping the Harlem Renaissance, Part II,” SUNY College at Old Westbury, Old Westbury, NY, 25 October 1996.

 

“The Indeterminacy of Innocence in Charles Burnett’s The Glass Shield,” College Language Association Annual Convention, Winston-Salem, NC, 11 April 1996.

 

“The Frustrated Project of Soul in the Drama of Ed Bullins,” Conference on Black Popular Culture, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 8 April 1995.