Judith Jackson Fossett

  • Associate Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity
  • Director, Program in African-American Studies
Office: (213) 740-2822

Expertise Summary

An expert on African American literature and culture, and the history of slavery

Expertise

  • African American studies (specifically literature and culture)
  • American literature and culture (19th and 20th centuries)
  • history of slavery in the Americas
  • literature and culture of the American South

Additional Information

  • Co-editor of Race Consciousness: African-American Studies for the
    New Century
    (1997)
  • Author of Illuminated Darkness: Slavery and Its Shadows in Nineteenth Century America (2004)