{"id":377,"date":"2020-10-02T09:24:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T09:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/readrespond\/?page_id=377"},"modified":"2020-10-02T09:24:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T09:24:12","slug":"maxine-montgomery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/readrespond\/people\/maxine-montgomery\/","title":{"rendered":"Maxine Montgomery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\"\"Maxine Montgomery\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Dr. Maxine Lavon Montgomery is a Professor of English at Florida State University where she specializes in African Diasporic, Post-Colonial, Contemporary Black Women\u2019s fiction, and Post-Apocalyptic Literature and Culture along with Gender and Critical Race Studies.\u00a0 She earned a bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degree from Florida State University, and she holds a doctorate in English with an emphasis on African American Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.<\/p>\n

The recipient of four awards for excellence in university teaching, Dr. Montgomery has published widely on the fiction of Toni Morrison, and she is the author or editor of six books:\u00a0 The Apocalypse in African American Fiction<\/em> (University Press of Florida, 1996), Conversations with Gloria Naylor<\/em> (University Press of Mississippi Press, 2004), The Fiction<\/em> of Gloria Naylor:\u00a0 Houses and Spaces of Resistance<\/em> (University of Tennessee Press, 2010), Contested Boundaries:\u00a0 New Critical Essays on the Fiction of Toni Morrison<\/em> (Cambridge Scholars, 2013), Conversations with Edwidge Danticat<\/em> (University Press of Mississippi, 2016), and most recently, New Critical Essays on Toni Morrison\u2019s God Help the Child<\/em>:\u00a0 Meditations on Race, Culture, and History<\/em> (University Press of Mississippi, 2020).\u00a0 Her articles and reviews have appeared in scholarly journals such as African American Review<\/em>, The South Carolina Review<\/em>, The College Language<\/em> Association Journal<\/em>, Sage,<\/em> Palimpsest:\u00a0 A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International<\/em>, and The Journal of Black Studies<\/em>.<\/p>\n

A book-length monograph, The Post-Apocalyptic Black Female Imagination<\/em>, is currently under contract with Bloomsbury Publishing (London, England).\u00a0 In it, she interrogates tropes of post-apocalypticism in fiction and expressive culture by black women in the United States and Anglo-Caribbean, including Toni Morrison, Octavia E. Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, Edwidge Danticat, Michelle Cliff, Beyonce, and others with a view to illuminating black women\u2019s contributions to fantasy culture and the speculative. \u00a0A follow-up project, Un-Zombifying Blackness:\u00a0 Race, Gender, Sex and Vernacular Culture in Black Women\u2019s Fiction<\/em>, is in the proposal phase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Maxine Montgomery\u00a0 Dr. Maxine Lavon Montgomery is a Professor of English at Florida State University where she specializes in African Diasporic, Post-Colonial, Contemporary Black Women\u2019s fiction, and Post-Apocalyptic Literature and Culture along with Gender and Critical Race Studies.\u00a0 She earned a bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degree from Florida State University, and she holds a doctorate … <\/p>\n

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