Maria C. Seger
- Courses4
- Reviews6
- School: University of Louisiana
- Campus: Lafayette
- Department: English
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Location:
104 East University Avenue
Lafayette, LA - 70504 - Dates at University of Louisiana: October 2017 - December 2018
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Biography
University of Louisiana Lafayette - English
Assistant Professor of English at University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Higher Education
Maria
Seger
Lafayette, Louisiana
I'm an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. My research and teaching interests include early and nineteenth-century American literature, African American literature, US ethnic literatures, and critical race and ethnic studies.
As a literary and cultural studies scholar, I am broadly interested in the violence of racial capitalism in US literature and culture. My work primarily deals with how violence arises out of and impacts capitalist social relations and ideological production, especially as it relates to notions of selfhood, ownership, and state power across the long nineteenth century.
Right now, I’m at work on my first book project, At All Costs: Extralegal Violence and Liberal Democracy in American Culture, which examines extralegal violence not as a lawless force that threatened American liberal-democratic governance but instead as emerging from and further entrenching the conditions that governance set.
Experience
United States Military Academy at West Point
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Maria worked at United States Military Academy at West Point as a Visiting Assistant Professor of English
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Assistant Professor of English
Maria worked at University of Louisiana at Lafayette as a Assistant Professor of English
MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
Assistant Editor
Maria worked at MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States as a Assistant Editor
Education
University of Connecticut
Master’s Degree
English
University of Connecticut
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
English
Aetna Graduate Critical Essay Second Prize
Aetna Graduate Critical Essay First Prize
University of Pittsburgh
Bachelor’s Degree
summa cum laude, English
Publications
“Ekphrasis and the Postmodern Slave Narrative: Reading the Maps of Edward P. Jones’s The Known World."
Callaloo
“Ekphrasis and the Postmodern Slave Narrative: Reading the Maps of Edward P. Jones’s The Known World."
Callaloo
Rev. of American Literature, Lynching, and the Spectator in the Crowd: Spectacular Violence, by Debbie Lelekis.
Studies in American Naturalism
“Ekphrasis and the Postmodern Slave Narrative: Reading the Maps of Edward P. Jones’s The Known World."
Callaloo
Rev. of American Literature, Lynching, and the Spectator in the Crowd: Spectacular Violence, by Debbie Lelekis.
Studies in American Naturalism
"Deferred Lynching and the Moral High Ground in Charles W. Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition."
Nineteenth-Century Literature
