Background
Mary Grace Albanese’s research centers on literatures of the Americas, comparative feminisms and the environmental humanities with a particular focus on the Haitian Revolution. She regularly teaches American literature from a hemispheric perspective, Caribbean literature, and special topics courses ranging from speculative climate fiction to archive theory to zombies.
Her scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in Small Axe, American Literature, J19 and Nineteenth-Century French Studies, among other venues. She is the author of Black Women and Energies of Resistance (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and has contributed to a number of edited collections.
She is currently writing a monograph that examines the intersection of gender expression and revolutionary iconography across the United States, Haiti, Cuba, Venezuela and Ecuador in the 18th and 19th centuries. She is also collaborating on a translation and scholarly edition of the trial of Marie-Josèphe Angélique of Montréal.
Albanese’s scholarship is deeply informed by community engagement and feminist coalition building. She is a certified New York state rape crisis counselor and is currently collaborating with the Ithaca Doula Access Initiative to expand access to reproductive care in upstate New York.
She is currently on research sabbatical.
Education
- PhD, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University 2017
- B.A, Barnard College, Comparative Literature, 2009, summa cum laude
Research Interests
- Literatures of the Americas
- The Haitian Revolution
- Environmental Humanities
Teaching Interests
- American Literature
- Reproducing the Archive
- Zombies of the Anthropocene