Dr. daphne lamothe

Daphne Lamothe is an award-winning author, teacher, and professor of Africana Studies at Smith College in Northampton, MA. In addition to being the recipient of fellowships and grants from organizations like the Ford Foundation and Duke University’s Humanities-Writ-LargeProgram, she was most recently awardedSmith’s2023 Honored Professor Award based on her achievements in teaching, scholarship and contributions to the academic community. Prior to her current position, she was an assistant professor of English at Rutgers University. She is currently a member of the executive and creative writing advisory boards of Meridians: race, feminism, transnationalism. She received her PhD in English from the University of California at Berkeley.

Her experiences growing up in an immigrant neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., combined with a life long passion for reading, dance and music, inspired her pursuit of a teaching and research career in Black Atlantic literatures, cultures, and history. As a Black feminist scholar, she deploys an intersectional frame of analysis to the study of aesthetic movements like the Harlem Renaissance and Post-Soul, as well as of twentieth and twenty-first century narratives of migration.

The Modern Language Association awarded honorable mention for the William SandersScarborough Prize to her first book, Inventing the New Negro: Narrative, Culture, andEthnography (UPenn, 2008). Advanced orders for Black Time and the Aesthetic Possibility of Objects, published by The University of North Carolina Press in January2024, can be placed HERE.