UVM English Department Faculty

Emily Bernard
Emily Bernard
429 Old Mill
phone: (802)656-8997
email: emily.bernard@uvm.edu
EDUCATION:
B.A. and Ph. D., American Studies, Yale University

COURSES TAUGHT
African-American Literature
Race & Ethnicity in Literary Studies
African-American Autobiography
Race and Representation in American Culture
African-American Women's Writing
Harlem Renaissance
Toni Morrison: Her Work and Vision

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books
   Bernard Friends      RemembermetoHarlem    

Emily Bernard is Associate Professor of English and ALANA U.S. Ethnic Studies. Her first book, Remember Me to Harlem: The Letter of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten (2001), was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Some of My Best Friends: Writers on Interracial Friendship (2004) was chosen by the New York Public Library as a Book for the Teen Age, 2006. Her essays have been published in several journals and anthologies, such as The American Scholar, Best American Essays, Best African American Essays, and Best of Creative Non-Fiction. Bernard has received fellowships from the Alphonse A. Fletcher Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard University. In 2008-9, Bernard was the James Weldon Johnson Senior Research Fellow in African American Studies at the Beinecke Library at Yale University. Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs, a book she co-authored with Deborah Willis, will be published by W.W. Norton in the fall of 2009. Another book, White Shadows: Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance, will be published by Yale University Press in 2010.

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