Welcome!
I'm an Assistant Professor and James Baldwin scholar at Austin Peay State University. I received my PhD in English with a specialization in African American Literature from Université Paris Cité.
My research interests include 20th-21 century African American and African Diaspora Literatures, LGBTQ+ Literatures, African American History, Intellectual History of the African Diaspora, Transatlanticism and Critical Whiteness Studies.
- Dr. Ronnel Keith Berry
"A Ritual Sacrifice: The Black Gaze on Whiteness in Gore Vidal’s The City and the Pillar (1948)" (Edited Collection: Calling It by Its Name: Analyses of White U.S. Literature, Accepted)
" Reimagining a community: White Spectrality in James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953)," (Routledge Companion to James Baldwin, Accepted)
February 20th, 2025 at 5pm: Organizer and Respondent for Black Thought Series at Austin Peay State University, Speaker: Dr. Paul Cato, "Black Radical Love - a Testimony"
March 29th, 2025: Invited paper at 2025 CAAR Conference in Berlin, Germany, "White Racism or World Community in “This Morning, This Evening, So Soon” (1965) Part I"
May 29th, 2025: Paper at American Comparative Literature Association, Seminar: Whiteness: Imploding the Impermeable and Invisible Monolith, White Racism or World Community in “This Morning, This Evening, So Soon” (1965) Part II"
