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Mary Grace Albanese serves as Associate Professor in the Department of English, General Literature and Rhetoric at Binghamton University, specializing in hemispheric American literatures, revolutionary studies, and environmental humanities with concentrated expertise on the Haitian Revolution. Her teaching portfolio includes American literature from transnational perspectives, Caribbean literary traditions, and innovative seminars on speculative climate fiction, archival theory, and cultural representations of zombies.
Her academic credentials include a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University (2017) and a summa cum laude B.A. in Comparative Literature from Barnard College (2009).
Research focuses critically on gender expression within revolutionary contexts across 18th-19th century United States, Haiti, Cuba, Venezuela and Ecuador, while pioneering intersections between environmental justice and feminist coalition building. Current projects examine revolutionary iconography through comparative feminist lenses and analyze climate narratives within the Anthropocene framework.
Albanese's scholarly contributions appear in leading journals including Small Axe, American Literature, J19, and Nineteenth-Century French Studies, culminating in the monograph Black Women and Energies of Resistance (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
Her community-engaged scholarship manifests through certified New York State rape crisis counseling and active collaboration with the Ithaca Doula Access Initiative to expand reproductive healthcare access in upstate New York, reflecting her commitment to feminist praxis beyond academia. Currently on research sabbatical, she advances multiple translational projects including scholarly editing of Marie-Josèphe Angélique's Montreal trial records.
