Ph.D. Student Profiles

Kelly Secovnie
M.A. University of Kansas
B.A. University at Albany, SUNY
A.A.S. Columbia-Greene Community College

Research Interests:
Anglophone West African Drama, African-American Drama, Transatlantic and Diasporic Studies, Postcolonial, Critical Race and Feminist Theory, Interdisciplinary Studies

Dissertation Title:
“Translating the Transatlantic: West African Literary Approaches to African American Identity”

Select Publications:

• “Cultural Translation in Ama Ata Aidoo’s The Dilemma of a Ghost and Osonye Tess Onwueme’s The Missing Face,” Journal of African Literature and Culture 4 (March 2007): 127-49
• “Lorraine Hansberry,” Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers, Ed. Yolanda Williams Page, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, January 2007. 251-58
• “Feminism and Women’s Equality Movements, African” and “Feminism and Women’s Equality Movements, United States,” Africa and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History, Eds. Richard M. Juang and Noelle Morrissette, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Forthcoming

Select Conference Presentations:

• “Striving for Connection: African-AmeriUncan and West African Drama and the Search for the One Out of Many,” School of Social Welfare Diversity Multi-Disciplinary Conference, Albany, NY, May 2007
• “Teaching African Literature in a World Literature Context,” African Literature
  Association Conference, Morgantown, WV, March 2007
• “Translation as a Tool of Resistance,” DisUnited Empires Conference, Kingston, Ontario, May 2006

Select Fellowships and Awards:

• Federal Language Acquisition Scholarship (FLAS) for the study of Beginning Yorùbá, Awarded by Stanford University, Summer 2007 ($6,545)
• Summer Thorns Dissertation Fellowship, University at Albany, Department of English, Summer 2007 ($2,500)
• Cornell University Scholarship for attendance at The School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University, Spring 2005 ($1,500)

Select Teaching Experience:
English 366: “Black Is, Black Ain’t”: Studies in Ethnicity and Literature
English 334: 19th-Century British Literature
English 226: Depictions of ‘The Native’ in Literature and Film
English 222: World Literature
English 226: Africa and America: Literary Connections and Disjunctions

ks8658@albany.edu
Curriculum vitae