Huang, Kristina

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PhD Candidate

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Institutional Affiliations: Baruch College, City College, CUNY Graduate Center, Queens College

Research Interests: Critical Race Studies, Cultural Studies, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature

In her dissertation, “Toward a Black Enlightenment: the Making of an Anglo-African Class in the Long Eighteenth Century,” Kristina examines how, from the mid-eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries, Anglophone writers of African descent described and contributed to the formation of black public cultures in the Atlantic world. In addition to being a Dissertation Year Fellow with the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and Caribbean, Kristina is also a dissertation fellow with The Graduate Center’s Mellon Committee on Globalization and Social Change.

For more information about her writing and research: https://kristinahuang.wordpress.com/