Title: Senior Lecturer

Department: English

Office: Benson 411
Phone: 615-322-2368
Email: gabriel.a.briggs@vanderbilt.edu

Degrees

• PhD, University of Kentucky, English
• MA, Belmont University, English
• BA, Belmont University, English/History

Research Area

• Nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century African American literature and culture
• Nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century American literature and culture
• Critical Race Theory

Current Research

• The New Negro in the Old South, book manuscript, (under contract with Rutgers University Press)
• “‘Tried By Fire’: The African-American Boycott of Jim Crow Streetcars in Nashville 1905-1907,” journal article, (under board review)

Current Courses

• Fall 2012:
• A Renaissance in Harlem
• Formations of American Identity
• Spring 2013:
• 211: Rise of the Novel
• 263W: An American Story

Current Positions

• Senior Lecturer, Vanderbilt University, Department of English, Fall 2011-present

Previous Positions

• Lecturer, Vanderbilt University, Department of English, Fall 2009-Summer 2011
• Adjunct Instructor, Belmont University, Department of English, Fall 2006-2008
• Adjunct Instructor, Lipscomb University, Department of English, Spring 2006
• Graduate Instructor, University of Kentucky, Department of English, Fall 2003-Fall 2005
• Adjunct Instructor, Lipscomb University, Department of English, Fall 2002, Spring 2003
• Adjunct Instructor, Nashville State Technical College, Department of English, Summers 2002 and 2003
• Instructor, Bowie Reading and Learning Center, Nashville, TN, Fall 2001-Fall 2003

Professional Societies

• Modern Language Association (MLA)
• American Studies Association (ASA)
• College English Association (CEA)
• Tennessee Philological Association (TPA)

Professional Honors

• Excellence in Teaching Award 2005, Department of English, University of Kentucky
• Excellence in Teaching Award 2004, Department of English, University of Kentucky

Publications

• Book:
• The New Negro in the Old South (under contract with Rutgers University Press)
• Articles:
• “’A Fine Good Place to Be’: Evaluating Racism, Rejection, and Redemption Through the Eyes of Martin Pawley in John Ford’s The Searchers.” Film & History, forthcoming.
• “Imperium In Imperio: Sutton Elbert Griggs and the New Negro of the South.” The Southern Quarterly 45 (2008): 153-176.
• “Annie Burton.” Encyclopedia of African-American Women Writers. Ed. Yolanda Page. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2007. 59-60.
• Review:
• The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938, ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Gene Andrew Jarrett (review). Callaloo 32 (2009): 322-325.