Sonnet Retman

Assistant Professor, African-American Studies
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies
Adjunct Assistant Professor, English

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1997

Selected Publications

“Racial Capitalism and George Schuyler’s Black No More,” forthcoming PMLA Journal.  

“ Between Rock and a Hard Place: Narrating Nona Hendryx’s Inscrutable Career.” Recall and Response: Black Women Performers and the Mapping of Memory, co-edited by Jayna Brown and Tavia Nyong’o. Special issue of Womenand Performance: a journal of feminist theory, Vol.16, No. 1, March 2006, 107-18.

"Charles Johnson," in African American Writers, Revised Edition. Edited by Valerie Smith. New York: Scribners, 2000, 393-411.

"‘Nothing was Lost in the Masquerade’: The Protean Performance of Genre and Identity in Charles Johnson's Oxherding Tale." African-American Review Vol. 33, No. 3 (Fall 1999): 417-37.

'Something more than a catalogue of celluloid rectangles in a government storehouse': Stryker's FSA Collection." Museum Anthropology Vol. 20, No. 2 (Fall 1996): 49-66.

Work in Progress

Fictions of the Folk in the Great Depression , (book manuscript).

Teaching and Research Interests

African-American literature and culture; critical race theory; feminism; American ethnic studies; popular music and film.

Courses

Introduction to African American Studies (AFRAM 101)
The Literature of the Harlem Renaissance (AFRAM 340)
Survey of African American Literature (AFRAM 214)
Postmodernist African American Fiction (AFRAM 498)
African American Satire (AFRAM 498)
Comparative American Ethnic Literature (AES 212)