Adena Spingarn received her PhD in English from Harvard University in May 2012.
Her dissertation, Uncle Tom in the American Imagination: A Cultural Biography, examines Uncle Tom's transformation in American cultural understanding from a heroic Christ figure in Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, to a submissive race traitor.
A contributor to The Root, Vogue, and Uncle Tom's Cabin in the National Era with an article forthcoming inTheatre Survey, her current writing and teaching focus on 19th- and 20th-century American literature and cultural history, with a special emphasis on African American literature and literary history.
She is hosted by the English Department.
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