Jill Toliver Richardson

Associate Professor of English

Contact

212-220-8000 ext. 7493

Bio

Jill Toliver Richardson is Associate Professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College and at The CUNY Graduate Center.  Her book, The Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture: Engaging Blackness, the result of a Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship, was published in the Afro-Latin@ Diasporas Series at Palgrave Macmillan (2016).  Additionally, she guest edited a special issue on Afro-Latina/o Literature and Performance for Label Me Latina/o: Journal of Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Latino Literary Production (Summer 2017).  She is the recipient of a CUNY Chancellor’s Fellowship and BMCC Faculty Publication Grant for her next book project, which examines literature, film, and music centered on the experiences of the hip hop generation including the trauma inflicted through heightened forms of violence, policing and surveillance instituted in black and Latinx communities during the Crack Era/War on Drugs of the 1980’s and 1990’s.  She shared her research for this project in the graduate course, “‘Things Done Changed’: The Crack Era and Its Lasting Impact on the American Nation,” at the CUNY Graduate Center.  As an invited speaker, she presented her work at Latinx Lives Matters and Imaginaries: 3rd Biennial Latina/o Literary Theory and Criticism Conference (2017), New York Metro American Studies Association Salon Talks (2018) and at City College (2017).