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Emerson Zora Hamsa is an Assistant Professor of English at Auburn University, affiliated with the College of Liberal Arts. Their research focuses on black literary studies, interrogating the intersections of blackness and humanism through interdisciplinary close readings. Hamsa holds a PhD from Rice University, alongside degrees from Wesley Theological Seminary and Marymount University.
- Education: PhD (Rice University), MA (Rice University), MTS & MDiv (Wesley Theological Seminary), BA (Marymount University)
Research emphasizes black sentience in U.S. literature, challenging the coherence of black humanity as praxis. Their manuscript-in-progress, All We Have Is Flesh: On Blackness and the Performance of the Human, engages theorists like Hortense Spillers and Sylvia Wynter. Recent publications include a review in Journal of Urban History analyzing African American secularism and cultural histories.
No scientific awards are explicitly mentioned. Courses taught include African American Literature post-1900, Blackness and the Problem of the Human, and critical theory surveys. No grants or lab affiliations are noted in the provided text.
