Jené Schoenfeld

PhD, English

Duke University

Office: 1337 POT
Phone: 257-1488
E-mail: jscho2@email.uky.edu

Areas of Specialty:

• The Mulatto in American Fiction and Culture
• African American and American Literature, Civil War -- Present
• Critical Race Theory

Selected Publications:

• Book Review. The "Tragic Mulatta" Revisited: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Fiction, by Eve Allegra Raimon and The Mulatta and the Politics of Race, by Teresa C. Zackodnik. American Literature Dec. 2006. (Forthcoming.)
• Book Review. American Racist: The Life and Films of Thomas Dixon, by Anthony Slide and The Sins of the Father: A Romance of the South, by Thomas Dixon. American Literature June 2006.
• Book Review. Faulkner's Questioning Narratives: Fiction of His Major Phase, 1929-42, by David Minter and Subversive Voices: Eroticizing the Other in William Faulkner and Toni Morrison, by Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber. American Literature Mar. 2003: 191-3. (credited as Jené Lee)

Projects in Process

• "Keeping Race in the Family: Marriage as Racial Pledge of Allegiance in Frances Harper’s Iola Leroy"
• Book manuscript, tentatively titled: Into the Box and Out of the Picture: The Rhetorical Management of the Mulatto in the Jim Crow Era