Katrina Newsom
Assistant Professor
Department of Languages, Literature and Philosophy
Education
Ph.D., Wayne State University
MA, Wayne State University
BA, Marygrove College
Humanities 119
615-963-2540
knewso12@tnstate.edu
BIO
Dr. Katrina P. Newsom was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. She earned her Ph.D. at Wayne State University in 2018. Her research focuses on African American literature and culture, post 1945 American literature, Ethnic literatures, and work and labor studies to explore questions about work and race in the United States. Dr. Newsom teaches literature and composition courses. Her pedagogical goal is to create an inclusive learning environment, where students of diverse backgrounds can develop critical and analytical skills while also maintaining and developing a sense of themselves. Presently, she is working on two articles: “The Politics of Responsibility in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man” and “Self-Determination and Agency, or the Answer to the American Dream Deferred: Reading Detroit’s 2008 Housing Crisis in Angela Flournoy’s The Turner House.”
Selected Scholarly Presentations
Upcoming: “We Don’t Bother with Borders Anymore”: Reading Race, Sex, and Class in N.K. Jemisin’s Emergency Skin.” MELUS 2021 Virtual Conference.
“Reading Deindustrialization and the African American Experience in Angela Flournoy’s The Turner House.” 33rd Annual Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States (MELUS) Conference. Cincinnati, Ohio.
“Dystopian Transformations and the Near Workless World Imaginary in Octavia Butler’s The Parable of the Sower.” 32nd Annual Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States (MELUS) Conference. Las Vegas, Nevada.
“The Refuge of Responsibility and the Politics of Recognition in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man.” 31st Annual Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States (MELUS) Conference. Boston, Massachusetts.
“Work and Responsibility: Reading Race and Gender Performance in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” 30th Annual Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States (MELUS) Conference. Charleston, South Carolina.
“The End of Work: Apocalyptic Imaginings in the Age of Work Crisis.” 34th Annual Southwest /Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association Conference. Albuquerque, New Mexico.
“The End of Work: Apocalyptic Imaginings in the Age of Work Crisis.” Wayne State University Humanities Center’s Fall Symposium: Apocalyptic Imagination. Detroit, Michigan.
List of Classes Taught at TSU
ENGL 1010 - Freshman Composition Freshman English
ENGL 2013 - Black Arts and Literature