English Department People
Koritha Mitchell, Assistant Professor
Office Information
543 Denney Hall, 164 West 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210
Phone: 614-688-3648
Office Hours:
Academic Year 2009-10: On Research Leave (office hours by appointment)
Personal URL(s):
http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/mitchell717/
543 Denney Hall, 164 West 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210
Phone: 614-688-3648
Office Hours:
Academic Year 2009-10: On Research Leave (office hours by appointment)
Personal URL(s):
http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/mitchell717/
Koritha Mitchell (Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park) specializes in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century African American literature, racial violence throughout American literature and culture, and black drama & performance. She has won fellowships from the David Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora, the Ford Foundation, and the AAUW, and her current book project focuses on black-authored lynching drama written before 1930. A brief selection of this research appears as "(Anti) Lynching Plays: Angelina Weld Grimké, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and the Evolution of African American Drama" in the edited volume Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem: African American Literature & Culture, 1877 - 1919 (New York UP, 2006). Mitchell is equally interested in examining the impact that racial violence has had on artists who work in forms other than drama. For example, see her article “Mamie Bradley’s Unbearable Burden: Sexual and Aesthetic Politics in Bebe Moore Campbell’s Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine” in CALLALOO 31.4 (December 2008). While examining a novel prompted by Emmett Till's murder, this essay builds on traditions of black feminist criticism to begin explicating what Mitchell calls “homebuilding anxiety,” a concept that will animate some of her future work.
