Anne Rice
E-mail Address: anne.rice@lehman.cuny.edu
Phone: 718-960-7120
Office: Carman Hall, Room 291
Office Hours: M (1-2pm) and W (1-2pm) and by appointment
Rank: Associate Professor
Degrees and Sources of Degrees: A.B., Smith Coll.; M.A., Lehman Coll.; M. Phil., Ph.D., Graduate Center, CUNY
Research
Prison writing; Prison Education: storytelling events in prisons; African American literature, African literature and film; representations of lynching in U.S. literature, US modernism.
Honors
2005 The Alumni and Doctoral Faculty Prize for the Most Distinguished Dissertation of the Year, City University of New York, Graduate Center
2003 Adjunct Teacher of the Year, Lehman College.
Publications and Curated Events
TEDxGreenRockCorrectionalCenter, Chatham, VA, May 7, 2024 (co-organizer)
TedxFarmingtonCorrectionalCenter, Farmington, MO. April 4, 2024 (co-organizer)
“What Price Freedom? The Implications and Challenges of OER for Africana Studies,” in The Digital Black Atlantic, eds. Roopika Risam and Kelly Baker Josephs (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), 219-224
“Literature,” The World of Jim Crow America: A Daily Life Encyclopedia, ed. Steven A. Reich (ABC-CLIO, 2019), 43-47
“Embodying African Women’s Epistemology: International Women’s Day Pagne in Cameroon”, co-authored with Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum, in Writing through the Visual/Virtual: Inscribing Language, Literature, and Culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean, eds. Renée Larrier and Ousseina D. Alidou (Lexington Books. 2015), 3-14
“Gender, Race, and Public Space: Photography and Memory in the Massacre of East St. Louis and The Crisis Magazine,” in Gender and Lynching: The Politics of Memory, ed. Evelyn Simien (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011), 131-172
“White Islands of Safety and Engulfing Blackness: Remapping Segregation in Angelina Weld Grimké’s “Blackness” and “Goldie””, African American Review 42 (2008), 75-90. Reprinted in Representing Segregation: Towards an Aesthetics of Living Jim Crow, and Other Forms of Racial Division, eds. Brian Norman and Piper Kendrix Williams (SUNY Press, 2010), 93-112
“How We Remember Lynching,” Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 20 (2006), 32-43
Witnessing Lynching: American Writers Respond (Rutgers University Press, 2003).
“Introduction: The Contest over Memory,” in Witnessing Lynching: American Writers Respond, ed. Anne Rice (Rutgers University Press, 2003), 1-24
“A Peculiar Power About Rottenness”: Annihilating Desire in James Hanley’s The German Prisoner” Modernism/Modernity 9 (2002), 75-89
“Burning Connections: Maternal Betrayal in Jamaica Kincaid’s My Brother”, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 14 (1999), 23-37
