P. Gabrielle Foreman

CBDR Co-Director
Professor
Center for Black Digital Research
W312 Pattee Library
140 Curtin Road
University Park, PA 16802-1807
pgf5052@psu.edu

About Me

P. Gabrielle Foreman is the Paterno Chair of Liberal Arts and Professor of English, African American Studies and History with an affiliate appointment in the University Libraries. She is the founding faculty director of the award-winning Colored Conventions Project and co-director of PSU's new Center for Black Digital Research.

Research Interests

Print Culture, 19C African American Literature, History and Culture, the Politics of Memory,

Teaching Interests

Print Culture, 19C African American Literature, History and Culture, Black Poetry and Art as relates to slavery.

Publications

Sankofa Imperatives: Black Women, Digital Methods, and the Archival Turn, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 2023

A riff, a call, and a response: Reframing the problem that led to our being tokens in ethnic and gender studies; or, where are we going anyway and with whom will we travel?, Legacy, 2013

Reading/photographs: Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins's four girls at cottage city, Victoria Earle Matthews, and the woman's era, Legacy, 2007

The Christian Recorder, broken families, and educated nations in Julia C. Collins's civil war novel The Curse of Caste, African American Review, 2006

Who's your mama? "white" mulatta genealogies, early photography, and antipassing narratives of slavery and freedom, American Literary History, 2002

“This Promiscuous Housekeeping”: Death, Transgression, and Homoeroticism in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Representations, 1993

Performances

Mural Arts Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 1/1/2021

Shadd's Daughters: The Enduring Legacy of Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Belize, Texas, Various sites in Canada, Delaware, 10/1/2020

The Three Harriets; David Drake: the Enslaved Potter, South Carolina/Delaware/Texas/Belize, 9/1/2012

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Mural at Green Street Friends School, Philadelphia, PA 19144

The Artistry and Activism of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, State College, PA 16801

Other Publications

Books

The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century., University of North Carolina Press, 2021

Chapters

Sir Dave’s Re/Turn: Jonathan Green, David Drake and Black Artists as Cultural Historian, The Words and Wares of David Drake: Revisiting "I Made This Jar" and the Legacy of Edgefield Pottery, 2024

“This Promiscuous Housekeeping”: Death, Transgression, and Homoeroticism in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 2023

Introduction, Praise Songs for Dave the Potter: Art and Poetry for David Drake, 2022

What Is Missing? Black History, Black Loss and Black Resurrectionary Poetics, Race in American Literature and Culture, 2022

What Is Missing?: Black History, Black Loss, and Black Resurrectionary Poetics, 2022

Preface, The Three Harriets and Others: Poems by Glenis Redmond, 2022

Black Organizing, Print Advocacy and Collective Authorship: The Long History of the Colored Convention Movement, 2021

Slavery, Black Visual Culture and the Promises and Problems of Print, African American Expression in Print and Digital Culture, 2019

Dave the potter’s august pots, sexual imagery, and dred scott, 2018

Editorials

Forum: A riff, A call, and A response: Introduction, Legacy, 2014

Others

The Christian Recorder , broken families, and educated nations in Julia C. Collins's civil war novel the curse of caste, African American Review, 2017

New England's fortune: An inheritance of black bodies and bones, Journal of American Studies, 2015

Racial recovery, racial death: An introduction in four parts, Legacy, 2007

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