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Judith Jackson Fossett

An expert on African American literature and culture, and the history of slavery

Associate Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity
Director, Program in African-American Studies

Contact at: (213) 740-2822 or fossett@usc.edu


Expertise:
  • African American studies (specifically literature and culture)
  • American literature and culture (19th and 20th centuries)
  • history of slavery in the Americas
  • literature and culture of the American South
Additional Information:
  • Co-editor of Race Consciousness: African-American Studies for the New Century (1997)
  • Author of Illuminated Darkness: Slavery and Its Shadows in Nineteenth Century America (2004)

More:
Biographical information can be found at:

http://college.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1003259&CFID=11888755&CFTOKEN=28675507