Ray Leonard

Ray Leonard is an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University, focusing on intersections of Black and Indigenous literatures in Early America. His research examines how marginalized authors reimagined New World history through Euro-colonial genres. Key works appear in The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Inquiry and James Joyce Quarterly.

Education: M.A. from University of Miami, Ph.D. from Rutgers University.

Current project: The Literature of Black and Indigenous Encounter in Early America, exploring how Black and Indigenous authors constructed a distinct literary tradition challenging colonial narratives.

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