Gena Chandler

Gena Chandler is an assistant professor in the Department of English whose scholarly area is African American literature with a particular focus on post-1970 contemporary African American writers. Her current work examines the form and function of story in examining several distinct features that she has outlined as an integral part of these writers' narrative strategies. She is particularly interested in the intersection of story and discourse in expressing new epistemological and ontological understandings of black identity as a diasporic condition found in the works of contemporary black male and female writers. She is also interested in these writers' expressions of ideas about black being in their works rather than a monolithic concept of black identity.