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Ulen,
Eisa
Adjunct Lecturer
Office / Office Hour: 1238 HW
(212) 772-5114
eisaulen@aol.com
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Eisa Nefertari Ulen earned her MA from Columbia University and is
the author of numerous articles and essays exploring race, class,
sex, religion, and popular culture. She has contributed an article
exploring women in Hip Hop to the 2004 Encyclopedia of African Atlantic
Relations. She has also contributed "Sisters' Stories" to
Sacred Fire: The QBR 100 Essential Black Books, a "Letter to
Angela Davis" to Letters of Intent: Women Cross the Generations
to Talk About Family, Work, Sex, Love, and the Future of Feminism,
and her "Best Advice on Writing" to both Free Within Ourselves:
Fiction Lessons for Black Authors and The African American Guide to
Writing and Publishing Nonfiction. Her "Letter to Angela Davis"
has been anthologized in Step Into a World: A Global Anthology of
the New Black Literature. Nominated for a National Association of
Black Journalists award by Essence magazine, she wrote "Muslims
in the Mosaic" for Essence, and this essay was anthologized in
America Now: Short Readings from Recent Periodicals. An Editor-at-Large
for Fierce, a new feminist magazine, she has also contributed to Ms.,
The Washington Post, Black Issues Book Review, creativenonfiction.org,
and numerous other magazines and journals. She is currently polishing
her first novel, which has earned a Frederick Douglass Creative Arts
Center Fellowship for Young African American Fiction Writers and a
Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center full tuition residency scholarship.
She teaches Contemporary African Women Writers, Afro-Caribbean Literature,
and African American Narratives. In addition, she mentors Hunter students
through the Ronald McNair Scholars Program.
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