Jason Frydman

Education:

Ph.D., Columbia University - 2008 (English & Comparative Literature)

B.A., Harvard University - 1998 (Social Studies)

Areas of Expertise:

Caribbean, African diaspora, U.S. ethnic and world literatures; critical race theory; global modernism; dancehall and Jamaican cultural studies; Arabic slave narratives and new world Orientalism.

Books and Publications

Sounding the Break: African American and Caribbean Routes of World Literature. Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2013

"Jamaican Nationalism, Queer Intimacies, and the Chinese Diaspora: Patricia Powell's The Pagoda." Small Axe. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2010

"World Literature and Diaspora Studies." The Routledge Companion to World Literature. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2010

"Zora Neale Hurston, Biographical Criticism, and African Diasporic Vernacular Culture." MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. 34.4, Winter: 99-118. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009

"Violence, Masculinity, and Upward Mobility in the Dominican Diaspora: Junot Díaz, the Media, and Drown." Hispanic-American Authors. New York: Chelsea House. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2008

Caribbean Transnationalism: Migration, Pluralisation and Social Cohesion book reivew. H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online March. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008

"Upward Mobility as a Neurotic Condition in Sandra Cisneros. The House on Mango Street." Exit9 8: 15-23. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007

"Violence, Masculinity, and Upward Mobility in the Dominican Diaspora: Junot Díaz, the Media, and Drown." Columbia Journal of American Studies 8, Spring: 99-118. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007

Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums

"Narco-narratives in the Americas: Scripting Illegality in Telenovelas, the Dancehall, and the Courtroom." Caribbean Epistemologies Symposium. CUNY Graduate Center. New York. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011