Rychetta Watkins comes to Rhodes after three years as an Assistant Professor of English at William Jewell College in Liberty, MO. Her teaching responsibilities will include courses in African American literature and culture and the intersections between the African American and Asian American literary traditions. Other research interests include the ethnic literatures of the United States, America as a postcolonial space, and American radical movements. Her current book project, “We Shall Have to Struggle”: Black and Yellow Power and the Making of Revolutionary Identity, is a comparative study that traces the development of African American and Asian American ethnic nationalist ideology, discourse, and subjectivity between 1967 and 1981. Vita (pdf)
Ph.D., English, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2005
M.A., English, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 1999
A.B., English and Psychology, Washington University, 1995
English 265 - Introduction to the African American Literary Tradition
English 364 - African American Literature
Articles
“The Southern Roots of Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s Revolutionary Activism.” The Southern Quarterly (Spring 2008):108-126.
Reviews
Soul Power: Culture, Radicalism, and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left by Cynthia A. Young, MELUS 33 (Spring 2008):171-173.