Jenkins, Candice

Associate Professor
1236HW / Office Hour:
(212) 772-5172
cjenki@hunter.cuny.edu

Candice M. Jenkins earned her PhD in English from Duke University in 2001. Her research and teaching consider intersections of gender, sexuality, and class in African American literature, particularly that of the 20th century.

Her first book, Private Lives, Proper Relations: Regulating Black Intimacy, examines how African American writers articulate the political consequences of intimacy for the already-vulnerable black subject. The book is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press (Spring 2007). She is currently beginning work on a second book project, tentatively entitled A Troubled Tenth: Class, Color, and the New Politics of Blackness, in which she reevaluates the material complexities of, and the resultant fissures within, African American culture in a post-Civil Rights moment.

Professor Jenkins’ writing has appeared in African American Review, MELUS, and American Literature; most recently, her article "Pure Black: Class, Color and Intraracial Politics in Toni Morrison’s Paradise" appeared in the July 2006 "Toni Morrison" special issue of Modern Fiction Studies.

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