Andrew Sargent

Andrew Sargent
  • Professor
  • Program Coordinator, African & African American Literature Minor
  • Department: English
  • Institution: West Chester University of Pennsylvania
  • Email: ASargent@wcupa.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
  • M.A., University of California, Los Angeles
  • B.A., Princeton University

Research Interests

African American LiteratureAmerican LiteratureLiterature and Culture of the Civil Rights EraFilm and Popular CultureRace, Masculinity, and Criminal Justice

Opportunities

Work Study Positions Available: No

Grant Funded Positions Available: No

Course-Credit Research Opportunities Available: No

Volunteer Research Positions Available: No

List of Publications

  • "'Free of Your Own History': Implicating Students in Dutchman." Approaches to Teaching Baraka's Dutchman, eds. Gerald Early and Matthew Calihman. Modern Language Association, 2018: 106-113. "To Counter a Mockingbird: White Heroism, Black Sacrifice, and Racial Innocence in William Melvin Kelley’s A Different Drummer." African American Review 51.1 (Spring 2018): 37-54. Awarded Honorable Mention for the Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Prize by the Society for the Study of Southern Literature (2018). "How to Get Away with Blackface: Performances of Black Masculinity in Tropic Thunder." The Journal of Popular Culture 50.6 (December 2017): 1400-1420. "Staging MLK in the Age of Colorblindness: The Good Negro and The Mountaintop." Critical Insights: Civil Rights Literature, Past and Present, ed. Christopher Varlack. Grey House, 2017: 270-286. "Miami Vice." The St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, 2nd Edition. St. James Press, 2013: 552-553. "Police in Television." The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encyclopedia. Los Angeles: Sage Reference, 2012: 1767-1774. "Building Precious Knowledge: An Interview with Documentary Filmmaker Eren Isabel McGinnis." MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 36.1 (Spring 2011): 195-217. "Representing Prison Rape: Race, Masculinity, and Incarceration in Donald Goines's White Man's Justice, Black Man's Grief." MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 35.3 (Fall 2010): 131-155. Reprinted in Word Hustle: Critical Essays and Reflections on the Works of Donald Goines, eds. L.H. Stallings and Greg Thomas. Baltimore: Black Classic Press Inprint Editions, 2011: 165-189. Entries on Sidney Poitier, Eldridge Cleaver, Chester Himes, and James Weldon Johnson for Great Lives from History: African Americans (Salem Press, 2011). Review of The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1880-1940, by Julian B. Carter. College Literature 36.2 (Spring 2009): 152-155. Review of The Spirituals by Dos Vatos Films (PBS documentary on African American spirituals) (2008)

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