Simone Alexander
Professor
Department of English
Seton Hall University
United States of America
Biography
Simone A. James Alexander earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and holds Master of Arts degrees from Rutgers University and Universitet Druzby Narodof, Moscow, Russia. Her primary fields of research include Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Caribbean Literature, Migration and Diaspora Studies. Her courses, Major Authors: Toni Morrison, Postcolonial Women Writers, and Migrations and Diasporas directly engage students with feminist and gender studies. Dr. Alexander also teaches Contemporary Russian Literature and graduate courses in Postcolonial Literature. She is an affiliated faculty of the Women and Gender Studies Program and the Russian and East European Studies Program.
Research Interest
Contemporary Russian Literature, Postcolonial Literature
Publications
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M/Otherly Guise or Guide?: Theorizing Jamaica Kincaid’s "Girl." Africa World Press, 211-223, April 2013.
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Feminist and Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Mothering. Africa World Press, Trenton, New Jersey, 2013.
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Embodied Subjects: Policing and Politicking the (Black) Female Body (Book Chapter) Münster: LIT Verlag & East Lansing, Michigan State University Press, 2011. 251-267, August 2013.
