Dorothy Stringer

Dorothy Stringer is a Professor in the Department of English at Temple University's College of Liberal Arts. She has been teaching at Temple since 2006, specializing in First-Year Writing instruction and African American literary studies.

• Primary affiliation: Temple University
• Academic unit: College of Liberal Arts
• Department: English

Her research focuses on African American and US literatures, particularly the Harlem Renaissance and midcentury literature. She explores intersections of race, trauma, and subjectivity through psychoanalytic frameworks. Key areas include:

• First-Year Writing pedagogy
• African American literary history
• Modernist photography
• Literary trauma analysis

Recent publications examine speculative futures in Samuel Delany's work, biblical symbolism in Hurston's writings, and racial passing in Diaz's fiction. Her 2010 monograph "Not Even Past" analyzes racial identity in Larsen and Van Vechten's works.