Crystal Harris
Crystal Harris
Co-Director of AAAS Program and Assistant Professor of English
Irby 428
(501) 450-5100
Dr. Crystal Harris (Ph.D., University of Memphis) is co-director of the African/African聽American Studies Program (AAAS) and Assistant Professor of English at 每日大赛网站, having聽joined the department in the summer of 2021. Harris鈥檚 research interests span聽many periods and movements in multicultural and African American literature and聽culture. More specifically, her research and teaching engage concepts of聽community, race, gender, and social justice. Harris鈥檚 latest article, 鈥淭eaching While聽鈥楤iting My Lip鈥�: Overcoming Patriarchy in the Classroom,鈥� was published as a聽chapter in The Affects of Pedagogy during the Spring of 2023. The chapter explores聽embodied affects of pedagogy within the university classroom as well as Lorraine聽Hansberry鈥檚 play, A Raisin in the Sun. Her current, long-term project seeks to聽engage the local community on topics of survival, secrecy, and Black womanhood.