PhD University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. English Language and Literature. June 2014.

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1 Kya Mangrum EMPLOYMENT Postdoctoral Research Associate Cornell University, Department of English EDUCATION PhD University of English Language and Literature. June Dissertation: Picturing Slavery: Memory, Photography, and Form in U.S. Narratives of Slavery, Committee: Sara Blair (Chair), Sandra Gunning, Meg Sweeney, Martha Jones Interests: African-American Literature; Visual Culture Studies; Nineteenth- century American Literature; Media Studies; Material Culture Studies; Science and Technology Studies M.A. University of English Language and Literature. May B.A. University of California, Berkeley. English. May 2001 (High Honors). PUBLICATIONS In Print As If the Walls Could Speak: Imagining Postmemories of Slavery in the Age of Obama. Reading Black Experience in the Obama Era: Theory, Advocacy, and Activism. Ed. by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas and Shanesha Brooks-Tatum. Peter Lang Publishing Like Limbs From a Tree: Home and Homeland in Caryl Phillips s Crossing the River. The Mind s Eye: A Liberal Arts Journal. Special Issue: The Shaping Role of Place in African-American Biography. 2007

2 Manuscripts Under Review The Visual Slave Narratives of the U.S. Civil War. Representations. Beheld by the Eye of God: Photography and the Promise of Democracy in Frederick Douglass s The Heroic Slave. Race, Vision, and Technology in the Nineteenth Century United States. Ed. by Shirley Samuels. Under Review at Oxford University Press. (Abstract accepted ). With a Clear Eye: Remembrance and Black Futurity During the Racial Nadir. African-American Literature in Transition, Ed. by Shirley Moody Turner. (Abstract accepted ). Word and Image in the Slave Narratives of John Jea and Robert Voorhis. African-American Literature in Transition, Ed. by Jasmine Nicole Cobb. Manuscripts in Progress Book Manuscript How Deep and Dark: Slavery, Photography, and the Limits of Narrative FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS NEH Summer Institute. Paul Laurence Dunbar and American Literary History. Summer Mellon Postdoctoral Diversity Fellowship. Cornell University, Moreau Academic Diversity Fellowship. Notre Dame University. Declined. Rackham Merit Fellowship (a competitive internally funded fellowship), University of Rackham Student Research Grant. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, TEACHING EXPERIENCE Instructor of Record English 2650: Introduction to African American Literature. Lower-level undergraduate Spring 2016 seminar. Cornell University. English 4503: Picturing the U.S. Slave Narrative. Upper-level undergraduate seminar. Spring 2015 Cornell University. English 125: Writing About Representations of U.S. Slavery. First Year Writing Course. University of English 124: Writing About Twentieth Century African-American Literature. First Year Writing Course (Literature focused). University of Fall 2013/ Winter 2014 Winter 2011 English 124: Love in the Time of Apocalypse: Writing about Literatures Fall 2010

3 of Devastation. First Year Writing Course (Literature focused). University of English 125: Writing About the Beautiful and the Good. First Year Writing Course. University of Fall 2009 Graduate Student Assistant African-American Studies 340: A History of Blacks in Film. University of Spring 2014 African-American Studies 340: The History of Blacks in Film. University of Spring 2013 African-American Studies 340: Detroit in and Out of Focus. University of Michigan, African-American Studies 340: The Civil Rights Movement in Film. University of English 313: Oprah Winfrey Presents American Literature: The Talk Show Host as Cultural Impresario. University of Spring 2012 Spring 2011 Winter 2010 INVITED LECTURES and PANELS Emancipation in 3D: Slavery, Photography, and Re-Memory, November 2015 Media Studies Lecture Series. Cornell University. Guest Lecture on The Visual Culture of the Harlem Renaissance. Visiting Assistant Professor Jennifer Emery-Peck, Looking Across and Thinking Between: Juxtaposing Theoretical Approaches to Visual and Literary Cultures. Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. Panel Interview on Claiming Citizenship: African-Americans and New Deal Photography. In conjunction with the exhibition, curated by Ricky Solanger, University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. American Black Journal. Detroit Public Television, Detroit, Michigan. Guest Lecture on African-Americans Visual Icons. Professor Karyn Lacy, CAAS 201: Introduction to African-American Studies. University of Panel Member, Department of English Advisory Board Meeting. Re-framing U.S. Slavery: Nation, Narrative, and the Negation of the Moral. University of Michigan, April 2013 February 2013 February 2011 March 2009 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Organizer/Facilitator Co-Organizer/Presider/Participant. A Radical New Vision: Popular Visual Culture and African-American Self-Fashioning. MLA, Austin 2016.

4 Co-Organizer/Presider. Commemorating Slave Rebellion. MLA, Vancouver Organizer/Participant. Tracing Race: Memory and Inheritance in African-American Literature and Popular Culture. Fordham University, Remembering, Forgetting, Imagining: The Practices of Memory. New York, NY Presenter A New and Modern People: Photography, the New Negro, and the Failure November 2015 of Representation. Modernist Studies Association. Boston, Massachusetts. The Photo-Text as Site of Memory: Word and Image in Paul Laurence Dunbar s Poems. American Literature Association. Boston, Massachusetts. In a Better Light: Photography, Mourning, and the Construction of Citizens in Elizabeth Keckley s Behind the Scenes. Slave Citizen Human: Graduate Colloquium on Slavery. Brown University Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Providence, Rhode Island. Reconstructing Slavery s Picture: Memory and Form in Kyle Baker s Nat Turner. Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. St. Louis, Missouri. The Proto-Neo Slave Narrative: Remembering Slavery in Paul Laurence Dunbar s Poetry. Association for the Study of African-American Life and History. Jacksonville, Florida. Fictions of Progress: The Visual Slave Narratives of the U.S. Civil War. American Literature Association. Boston, Massachusetts. Beheld by the Eye of God: Photography, Narrative, and Revelation in Fredrick Douglass s The Heroic Slave. American Literature Association. San Francisco, California. How do You Say What are Pictures? : Memorial Intervention and Medial Innovation in U.S. Narratives of Slavery. Harriet Tubman Institute, York University. Toronto, Ontario. May 2015 October 2013 October 2013 October 2013 May 2013 May 2012 August 2011 I Saw You and You Become : Image, Text, and (Post-) Memories of Slavery in the Photography of Carrie Mae Weems. South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Atlanta, Georgia. All That is Precious and Fine : Memory and Inheritance in Toni Morrison s Beloved and Cynthia Ozick s The Shawl. American Comparative Literature Association. Long Beach, California. The Reality She Knew: Language, Hybridity, and Agency in Jamaica Kincaid s The Autobiography of My Mother. South Central Modern Language Association. Memphis, Tennessee. November 2010 April 2008 November 2007

5 Like Limbs from a Tree : Home and Homeland in Caryl Phillips s Crossing the River. Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. North Adams, Massachusetts. September 2006 AFFILIATIONS/MEMBERSHIPS Modern Language Association American Studies Association American Literature Association RELATED EXPERIENCE Grader. The Program on Intergroup Relations. University of Michigan, Grader. Advanced Placement Exam in English Language and Composition. College Board. Louisville, KY and Kansas City, Missouri. High School English Teacher/Department Chair. Antelope Valley Christian School. Lancaster, California. June 2011, 2013, 2015 June 2004 to June 2008 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE and EXPERIENCE Participant. Media Studies and Theory Group. Cornell University Participant. Arts of Citizenship Institute for Social Change. University of Michigan, 2013 Co-Chair. Trauma Studies Collective, University of 2009 to 2011 Participant/Conference Communications Committee. Black Humanities Collective, University of Participant. United States Literatures and Cultures Consortium, University of 2008 to to 2013 Participant. Visual Culture Workshop, University of 2008 to 2010 LANGUAGES Spanish (Reading Knowledge) REFERENCES Leslie A. Adelson Cornell University 183 Goldwin Smith Hall Ithaca, NY

6 (607) Sara Blair University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 3187 Angell Hall Ann Arbor, MI (734) Melba Joyce Boyd Wayne State University 5057 Woodward Avenue 11 th floor Detroit, MI Sandra Gunning University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 4700 Haven Hall Ann Arbor, MI (734) Shirley Samuels Cornell University 257 Goldwin Smith Ithaca, NY Megan Sweeney University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 3187 Angell Hall Ann Arbor, MI (734)