Sasha Panaram

Sasha Panaram is an assistant professor of English at Fordham University. She teaches and researches on Black diaspora literature, culture, and politics. She has a Ph.D. in English from Duke University and is working on a book about the Middle Passage. She is also a public scholar and a board member of the Patrick Healy Fellowship.

Publications:

• “Gloria Naylor: Literary Geographer of the Black South,” Southern Cultures 29.2 (2023): 9-19.

• “Andaiye and Audre Lorde’s Black Transnational Sisterhood or, ‘I want you in this world,’” Small Axe 27.1 (March 2023): 19-33.

• “Bloom’s Butler’s Taxonomy,” The Black Scholar 52.2 (May 2022): 38 – 49.

Media Appearances/Speaking Engagements:

• Cheryl A. Wall Postdoctoral Presentation, English Department, Rutgers University

• American Studies Association

• National Women's Studies Association

Previous Organizations:

• Fordham University

Accomplishments:

• Cheryl A. Wall Postdoctoral Associate Fellow in African American & African Diasporic Literary Studies, Rutgers University

Upcoming Projects:

• The Aesthetic Afterlives of the Middle Passage: Black Movement, Catastrophe, and Choreographies for Living (book revision in progress)

My work considers forms of movement and relations that outlive the transatlantic slave trade and continue to inform Black life today in a moment when the movement of Black and Brown people is severely threatened.