Jeffner M. Allen
Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title
Africana Studies; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Background
Jeffner Allen is a professor of Africana Studies and philosophy. She is an affiliated faculty member of the Center for Korean Studies, Comparative Literature, and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and holds a Courtesy Title in the Translation, Research and Instruction Program (TRIP).
Education
- PhD, Duquesne University
- MA, BA, University of California at San Diego
Research Interests
- Cultural Imaginaries and Representation
- Trans-Genre Writing
- Feminist and Lesbian Studies
- Postcolonial Studies
- Diasporic Literatures
- Water and Environmental Studies
- Transdisciplinary Studies
- Multi-Platform Works
- 20th and 21st Century European Philosophy
Awards
- Award for Faculty Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring
- Asian and Asian American Studies Curriculum Grant Award
- NYS/UUP Affirmative Action Recruitment Award
- Fellow, Helen Riaboff Whiteley Center, Friday Harbor Laboratories
- Visual artist in Residence, Saltonstall Arts Colony studio session
More Info
Books:
Reef Passions: Postcolonial Aesthetics between Coral Reefs [in process]
"SINUOSITIES \\ Lesbian Poetic Politics (Indiana University Press, 1996)"
r e v e r b e r a t i o n s across the shimmering CASCADAS (SUNY Press, 1994)
Lesbian Philosophies and Cultures (SUNY Press, 1990) [anthology]
The Thinking Muse: Feminism and Recent French Thought, coeditor (Indiana University Press, 1989) [anthology]
Lesbian Philosophy: Explorations (Institute of Lesbian Studies, 1987)
