معرفی
Maria Rice Bellamy is an Associate Professor of English at the City University of New York (CUNY), specializing in African American, Diasporic, and Multi-Ethnic American literatures with a focus on women writers. She serves as Director of the program in African and African Diaspora Studies. Her research examines representations of slavery in contemporary US literature and cultural memory, particularly through lenses of traumatic inheritance and ethical responsibility. Bellamy holds a Ph.D. in English from Rutgers University, along with advanced degrees from Middlebury College and Harvard University.
Her scholarly work includes the upcoming book *Black Prominence and Black Precarity* (Cambridge, 2025) and her monograph *Bridges to Memory* (UVA Press, 2015), which analyzes postmemory in ethnic American women’s fiction. She has been awarded prestigious fellowships including the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship and the American Association of University Women’s American Fellowship.
Bellamy teaches across CUNY’s English programs, including the Macaulay Honors College and Verrazano School, emphasizing interactive pedagogy and critical engagement with diverse literary traditions. Her publications span analyses of Edwidge Danticat, Caryl Phillips, and Toni Morrison, exploring themes of diaspora, ethical responsibility, and narrative form.
