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Dr. Ayesha Hardison, Associate Professor of English at Ohio University, won the College English Association of Ohio’s Nancy Dasher Award for Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature. She will be honored at the association’s conference on April 18. The selection committee was very complimentary […]

The Between Love and Hate theme presents “The Devil Quotes Scripture: Intersections of Spirituality, Sexuality, and Race on Empire” on Tuesday, April 14, from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Faculty Commons on the third floor of Alden Library. Empire is the new Fox hit that drew 17 million viewers […]

Dr. Ayesha K. Hardison’ book Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature has been named an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice. Hardison is Associate Professor of English at Ohio University. Every year in the January issue, in print and online, Choice publishes a highly selective […]

Dr. Ayesha Hardison presented “Of Maids and Ladies: The Ethics of Living Jane Crow” at the University of Kansas on Oct. 30. Hardison examined the oppressive situation faced by women of color after the Civil War. “Working from the decline of the mammy in postbellum America to the rise of […]

Dr. Ayesha Hardison presented two lectures Nov. 13 at the College of Wooster. “Re-Reading African American Literary History” Abstract: What do critiques of the film The Help, comic strips, Reverend Al Sharpton, and African American literary history have in common? Come find out! Professor Andreá Williams (Ohio State University) will […]

Dr. Ayesha Hardison is the Fall 2014 Langston Hughes Visiting Professor at the University of Kansas. Hardison is Associate Professor of English at Ohio University, where she teaches courses in African American literature. Her first book, Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature (American Literatures […]

Dr. Ayesha K. Hardison, Associate Professor of English, published an article on “Where Author and Auteur Meet: Genre, the Erotic, and Black Female Subjectivity” in Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 12.1 (April 2014): 88-120. Abstract: This essay examines black women’s transition from cultural consumers to artistic producers in Martha Southgate’s under-studied […]