Research

Articles, publications, and research interests
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Leah Milne

Publications

Book: Novel Subjects

Find information about my book, Novel Subjects, at this link.

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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

“Jagged Harmonies of Knowledge and Black Representation in Hurston’s Essays.” The Journal of American Culture 45.3 (Sept 2022): 287-297. – link

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“Intimate Realities and Necessary Fictions in Percival Everett by Virgil Russell.” African American Review 52.1 (2019): 47-60. – link

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“Disloyal to Civilization”: Metafiction as Protest in Gina Apostol’s The Gun Dealers’ Daughter.” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 43.4 (2018): 104-126. – link

Leah Milne Postcolonial Text article

“Floating Languages: Loh’s Breaking the Tongue and the Consequences of Historical Fiction.” Postcolonial Text 13.3 (2018): 1-17. – link

Leah Milne South Atlantic Review article

“Choosing Displacement: Scalar Variety, Fictional Memoirs, and the American Dream in Mona in the Promised Land and American Son.” South Atlantic Review 80.1-2 (2015): 42-61. – link

Leah Milne College Literature article

“‘Hybrid Vigor’: The Pillow Book and Collaborative Authorship in Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats.” College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies 42.3 (Summer 2015): 464-487. – link

Leah Milne CLA Journal article

“Choosing Africa: The Importance of Naming in Beloved and The Poisonwood Bible.” CLA Journal 55.4 (June 2012): 352-369. – link

Book Chapters

“The Melting Pot Boiled Over: Hawaiian Identity and Self-Authorship in Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s Name Me Nobody and Blu’s Hanging.” Growing up Asian American in Young Adult Fiction. Ed. Ymitri Mathison. University Press of Mississippi. Nov 2017. 187-206. ISBN: 9781496815064 – link

Milne “The Melting Pot Boiled Over: Hawaiian Identity and Self-Authorship in Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s Name Me Nobody and Blu’s Hanging.” Growing up Asian American in Young Adult Fiction.

Online Articles

My most recent op eds are featured in places like Newsweek, Ms. Magazine, and The Hill. You can find a more complete list of recent op eds here.

“Exploring the Carlisle Archive.” Humanities for All. Aug 2021. – link

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“Zitkála-Šá.” The New Territory. July 2020. – link

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“Inseparable Suburbia.” Indiana Humanities. Mar 2020. – link

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“Discussing Difference in Young Adult Literature.” Invited online article. MELUS blog: Pedagogy and Multiethnic Literature. Feb 2020. – link

 
For more on Leah Milne’s courses, including the course mentioned in the above article, visit the Teaching page.
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“Reflections on Teaching Poverty & Wealth through American Literature.” Pedagogy and American Literary Studies. 22 Jan 2019. – link

 
For more on Leah Milne’s courses, including the course mentioned in the above article, visit the Teaching page.
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“Activism and ‘Good Trouble’ in the March Trilogy.” Black Perspectives: African American Intellectual History Society. 14 Dec 2016. Peer-reviewed blog post for the African American Intellectual History Society – link

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“Out of a Concern for Justice: Ghosts and Racism.” Peer-reviewed blog post for Critical Ethnic Studies Journal. 12 Sept 2015. – link

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“(In)Visibility, Race, and Ethnicity in American Women’s Writing throughout the Twentieth Century.” U.S. Studies Online: Forum for New Writing. 6 Mar 2015. Guest blog post for the Society for the Study of American Women Writers and U.S. Studies Online. – link

If you’re curious about Leah’s favorite books (and not just the ones she likes to teach and/or research), click here.

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