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Simone Alexander

Simone A. James Alexander: ‘Resist one-dimensionality’
Learn more about Simone A. James Alexander, Lehigh’s new Director of Africana Studies and a professor of English.
The cover of Side by Side: U.S. Empire, Puerto Rico, and the Roots of American Youth Literature and Culture

Puerto Rican Youth Literature: Marginalized, but Not Marginal
Marilisa Jiménez Garcia's new book is the first extensive study of Puerto Rican youth literature of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Bird flying over illustrations of people covered in white

American Literature and the Metaphor of Human Waste
Mary Foltz examines the ways several postmodern authors use representations of human excrement to critique how people treat each other and the natural world.