Emily Bernard

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
        

• Some of My Best Friends: Writers on Interracial Friendship (paperback available July 2005).

• Remember  Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten (2001).
  

Articles

• "N Words," American Scholar, Fall 2005.

• "Unlike Many Others:  Exceptional White Characters in Harlem Renaissance Fiction," Modernism/Modernity (forthcoming).

• "A Familiar Strangeness:  The Spectre of Whiteness in the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement," in New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement, eds. Lisa Gail Collins and Margo Crawford.  Rutgers, NJ:  Rutgers UP, (forthcoming).

• "'Raceless' Writing and Difference:  Ann Petry's Country Place and the African-American Literary Canon," Studies in American Fiction,Spring/Summer 2005.
  

• "Commentary."  When Washinton Was in Vogue:  A Lost Novel of the Harlem Renaissance, ed. Adam McKible.  New York:  Amistad/HarperCollins, 2004.

• "What He Did For the Race:  Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance," Soundings:  An Interdisciplinary Journal, Winter 1997.

Book Reviews of works by Rachel Cohen, Randall Kennedy, Alice Walker, John Edgar Wideman, and others, in Black Issues Book Review, Chicago Tribune, and Washington Post Book World.

CURRENT RESEARCH
Interracial Dynamics in American Culture
Race in the College Classroom