Shawn Anthony Christian is an associate professor and the chairperson of the Department of English at FIU. He is also an affiliate faculty member in the African and African Diaspora and Women's and Gender Studies programs. He earned a PhD in English and education from the University of Michigan. Professor Christian is the author of The Harlem Renaissance and the Idea of a New Negro Reader (Massachusetts 2016) and generally lectures and publishes on twentieth-century African American literary and print culture. His scholarship has been published in several journals and books, including American Periodicals, College Language Association Journal, Ethnic Studies Review, MAWA Review, Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, and the volumes Reading African American Experiences in the Obama Era, The Harlem Renaissance Revisited, Editing the Harlem Renaissance, African American Literature in Transition: 1930–1940, The Cambridge History of the American Essay, and Speculative Light: The Arts of Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin. His varied leadership roles include a term as associate provost at Wheaton College (MA) and vice chair of the Board of Directors for the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.
Shawn Christian
Chair and Associate Professor, English; FIU
