Selamawit D. Terrefe
Assistant Professor - English
Fall 2022-Spring 2023
School of Liberal Arts
https://www.sdterrefe.com/
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Affiliated Faculty
Region
- Caribbean
- General Latin America
Research
African Diasporic Literature and Visual Culture, Critical Theory
Degrees
- Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 2017
- M.A., University of California, Irvine, 2010
- M.A., New York University, 2006
- B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 2001
Academic Experience
Academic Experience
- University of Bremen, Germany, 2016 – 2018
Distinctions
- Impulse Grant, University of Bremen, 2017
- University of Bremen, Germany, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Department of English-Speaking Cultures in the field of American/Black Atlantic Studies, 2016 – 2020
- UC Chancellor’s Fellowship in English, 2013
- Hayman Dissertation Fellowship, 2013
Languages
- Amharic
- German
- Spanish
Selected Publications
- 2018. “Speaking the Hieroglyph: Black Women and Mimetic Thaumaturgy.” Theory and Event, special issue “Afropessimism and Black Feminism,” Ed. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, 21(1).
- 2016. “Black Women Writers in the United States.” Oxford Bibliographies in African American Studies, Ed. Gene Jarrett, Oxford University Press.
- 2016. “What Exceeds the Hold?: An Interview with Christina Sharpe.” Rhizomes 29, special issue ‘Black Holes: Afro-Pessimism, Blackness and the Discourses of Modernity,‘ Ed. Dalton Anthony Jones.
- 2012. “Phantasmagoria: or, The World is a Haunted Plantation.” The Feminist Wire: n. pag. Web.10
