Kinitra Brooks, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

kinitra.brooks@utsa.edu

 

Specialization :Black Feminist Theory, Black Mother-Daughter Relationships, 20th Century African American and Afro-Caribbean Women's Literature, French Psychoanalysis.

 

Recent Courses:Women and Literature, Topics in American Literature: Mothering


Publications:


Dissertation: The Black Maternal: Heterogeneity and Resistance in the Literary Representation of Black Mothers in 20th-Century African American and Afro-Caribbean Women’s Fiction. Director: Trudier Harris Committee: Dominique Fisher, Rebecka Rutledge Fisher, Gregory Flaxman, Alice Kuzniar

 

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS

Sue E. Denman Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Texas at San Antonio 2008

Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Declined, 2008 Future Faculty Fellowship, Center For Teaching and Learning, 2007

Latané Interdisciplinary Social and Human Science Scholarship 2002

University of Michigan Population Fellows Program, 1999