Shawn Christian

Shawn Anthony Christian is an associate professor and chairperson of the Department of English at FIU. He is also affiliate faculty in its African and African Diaspora Studies program. He received a PhD in English and education from the University of Michigan in 2003. Professor Christian is author of The Harlem Renaissance and the Idea of a New Negro Reader and lectures and publishes generally on twentieth-century African American literary and print culture. His scholarship has been published in multiple journals and books, including  American Periodicals, CLAJ, 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, and African American Literature in Transition: 1930–1940. His varied leadership roles include a term as associate provost at Wheaton College and as vice chair of the Board of Directors for the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.