Tristan Alexander Striker
I am a Ph.D. candidate in English researching memory and history in the African diaspora and teaching writing and literature in New York.
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the English department. I am currently writing on the ways in which persons of African descent interrogate the cultural conflation of freedom, history, and ontology through personal memory in literature. I am also a Writing Fellow at Bronx Community College, working on developing information literacy with the BCC Library and developing online grammar tutorials for faculty, in addition to giving workshops for faculty on teaching writing across the curriculum. Last, but not least, I teach literature and composition across the CUNY system and at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Social
Positions
Publications
Tristan Striker.”African diaspora: a history through
culture/Darker than blue: on the moral
economies of Black Atlantic culture/
Working the diaspora: the impact of
African labor on the Anglo-American
world, 1650–1850.” Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 10:3, 301-4.
Tristan Striker. “Ripping the Veil: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Long Memory of the African Diaspora.” Trespassing Journal, Issue 3, Winter 2014.
Education
B.A. in English Literature, University of New Hampshire, May 2009.
M.Phil. in English, CUNY Graduate Center, September 2012.
Academic Interests
History and Historiography in American and African American Literature.
Memory and Trauma in African American and African Diasporic Literature.
The Atlantic Slave Trade and the Middle Passage in African Diasporic Literature.
Critical Race Theory.
The Dutch Atlantic.
Composition Theory and Pedagogy.
