Jessica Ness
Graduate Student
Summary
Courses Taught:
Courses
Spring 2022
COML 1105 Books with Big Ideas: In Search of Justice
Office Hours: Th 11am-1pm KG53
Research Focus
Francophone post-colonial literature and theory; questions of readability, age, and power in the translation of revolutionary texts; Frantz Fanon; Édouard Glissant; Beyoncé Studies; Black Studies; intersections of aesthetics and politics in popular culture; the transnational encounter as the production of political identity
Publications
"William and Frances Seward House," Voices on the Underground Railroad