Dworkin, Ira
individual record
Associate Professor
Positions:
- Associate Professor, English, College of Arts and Sciences
education and training
- Ph.D. in English and American Studies, City University of New York - (New York, New York, United States) 2003
- M.Phil. in English, City University of New York - (New York, New York, United States) 2000
- M.A. in English Literature, City University of New York - (New York, New York, United States) 1998
- B.A. in English and Afro-American Studies, Wesleyan University - (Middletown, Connecticut, United States) 1993
selected publications
Academic Articles8
- Coletu, E., & Dworkin, I. (2015). On Demand and Relevance: Transnational American Studies in the Middle East and North Africa. Comparative American Stuides. 13(4), 201-208.
- Dworkin, I. (2012). "Near the Congo": Langston Hughes and the Geopolitics of Internationalist Poetry. American Literary History. 24(4), 631-657.
- Dworkin, I. (2011). The Harlem Renaissance Revisited: Politics, Arts, and Letters (review). MELUS. 36(1), 222-224.
- Dworkin, I. (2008). In the country of my forefathers. Atlantic Studies: literary, cultural and historical perspectives. 5(1), 99-118.
- Dworkin, I., & Lannoy, P. (2006). American Congo Booker T. Washington, l'Afrique et l'imaginaire politique noir amricain. Civilisations. 55(1-2), 165-179.
Books1
- Dworkin, I. M (2017). Congo Love Song: African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State. The University of North Carolina Press.
Chapters2
- Dworkin, I. M. (2015). Mapping African American Literature and Human Rights. Moore, A. S., & Goldberg, E. S. (Eds.), Teaching Human Rights in Literary and Cultural Studies. 86-86. Modern Language Assn of Amer.
- Dworkin, I. M. (2013). On the Borders of Race, Mission, and State: African Americans and the American Presbyterian Congo Mission. Borderlands and Frontiers in Africa. 183-212. LIT Verlag Mnster.
editor of
Books3
awards and honors
recent teaching activities
- AFST329 African-am Lit Pre 1930 Instructor
- AFST393 Africana Lit & Culture Instructor
- ENGL203 Hnr-writing About Literature Instructor
- ENGL203 Writing About Literature Instructor
- ENGL227 Am Lit Begin To Civil War Instructor
chaired theses and dissertations
- Benes, Jan (2017-05). Writing in the Sky: Black Aviation in the Interwar Black Press. (Master's Thesis)
Email
idworkin@tamu.edu
First Name
Ira
Last Name
Dworkin
mailing address
Texas A&M University; English; 4227 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4227
USA