Shawn Salvant

Shawn Salvant serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Connecticut and maintains an affiliation with the Africana Studies Institute.

His research centers on 19th-century American literary traditions with specialized expertise in African American literature and the historical interplay between literature and racial science. Key research domains include:

• Nineteenth-Century African American Literary Production
• Racial Science in Antebellum America
• Literary Representations of Race
• 19th-Century American Intellectual History
• Post-Emancipation Narratives
• Scientific Racism in Literature