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About Brittney Edmonds
I'm an Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies at UW-Madison. I specialize in 20th and 21st century African American Literature and Culture with a special interest in Black Humor Studies.Brittney Edmonds is an Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies at UW-Madison. I specialize in 20th and 21st century African American Literature and Culture with a special interest in Black Humor Studies. Read more about my work at brittneymichelleedmonds.com.
NBN Episodes hosted by Brittney:
December 25, 2023
There's a Disco Ball Between Us
In There's a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life (Duke UP, 2022), Jafari S. Allen offers a sweeping and lively ethnographic and intellec…
November 30, 2023
American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability
An incisive critique that examines the origins of contemporary American ideas about surveillance, terrorism, and white supremacy. For more than three…
May 1, 2023
Suddenly We
In her new poetry collection Suddenly We (Wesleyan UP, 2023), Evie Shockley mobilizes visual art, sound, and multilayered language to chart routes tow…
April 12, 2023
Deadpan
Explores expressionlessness, inscrutability, and emotional withholding in Black cultural production. Arguing that inexpression is a gesture that acq…
March 26, 2023
Decolonizing Memory
In Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony (Duke UP, 2021), Jill Jarvis examines the crucial role that writers and artists have pla…
December 16, 2022
Liberty Road
Half of Black Americans who live in the one hundred largest metropolitan areas are now living in suburbs, not cities. In Liberty Road: Black Middle-Cl…
October 11, 2022
Criticism and Politics
What is criticism for? Over the past few decades, violent disagreements over that question in the academy have burst into the news media. These confli…
August 22, 2022
The Matter of Black Living
As the nineteenth century came to a close and questions concerning the future of African American life reached a fever pitch, many social scientists a…
August 11, 2022
Or, on Being the Other Woman
In or, on being the other woman (Duke UP, 2022), Simone White considers the dynamics of contemporary black feminist life. Throughout this book-length …
July 29, 2022
Insurrection
The little-known and under-studied 1807 Insurrection Act was passed to give the president the ability to deploy federal military forces to fend off la…
July 13, 2022
The Future of Decline
As the US becomes a second-place nation, can it shed the superpower nostalgia that still haunts the UK? The debate over the US's fading hegemony has r…
July 4, 2022
Ugly Freedoms
In Ugly Freedoms (Duke UP, 2022), Elisabeth R. Anker reckons with the complex legacy of freedom offered by liberal American democracy, outlining how t…
June 6, 2022
Outside Literary Studies
This striking contribution to Black literary studies examines the practices of Black writers in the mid-twentieth century to revise our understanding …
June 2, 2022
Dreaming the Present
In their darkest hours over the course of the twentieth century, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ella Baker, George Schuyler, and Fannie Lou Hamer gathered hundreds…
May 5, 2022
Elite Capture
“Identity politics” is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom and amplifying antagonisms in the media, both online …
April 21, 2022
The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism
What if, Joseph Darda asks, our desire to solve racism--with science, civil rights, antiracist literature, integration, and color blindness--has entre…
April 12, 2022
Played Out
In this episode, Dr. Brandon J. Manning talks about his most recent book, Played Out: The Race Man in 21st Century Satire (Rutgers UP, 2022). Here's a…
March 4, 2022
Phenomenal Blackness
Mark Christian Thompson's book, Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory (University of Chicago Press, 2022) examines the changing in…
January 21, 2022
Black Gathering
In Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life (Duke UP, 2021), Dr. Sarah Jane Cervenak engages with Black artists and writers who create alternative …
December 15, 2021
To Make Negro Literature
In To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship (Duke UP 2021), Elizabeth McHenry locates a hidden chapter in…
November 3, 2021
Black Age
Although more than fifty years apart, the murders of Emmett Till and Trayvon Martin share a commonality: Black children are not seen as children. Time…
October 14, 2021
The Other Side of Terror
Dr. Erica R. Edwards's The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of US Empire (New York University, 2021) reveals the troubling intimacy b…