Kathy Pfeiffer

544B O'Dowd Hall
(248) 370-2267
[email protected]
Ph.D. Brandeis University
Kathy's professional website

• Oakland University New Investigator Research Excellence Award, 2001

• Oakland University Teaching Excellence Award Nominee 2002, 2009, 2010

• 2012 Kresge Arts in Detroit Literary Arts Fellow

• Oakland University President's Colloquium Speaker, 2014
  

• Michigan Writers Chapbook Contest Winner, Nonfiction, 2018

Areas of study
American literature, African-American literature, the Harlem Renaissance, Biography

Publications

Scholarly Books
Brother Mine: The Correspondence of Jean Toomer and Waldo Frank, University of Illinois Press , 2010

“Introduction” to Waldo Frank’s Holiday, University of Illinois Press, 2003

Race Passing and American Individualism, University of Massachusetts Press, 2003

“Introduction” to Carl Van Vechten’s Nigger Heaven, University of Illinois Press, 2000

Scholarly Articles
“The New Negro Among White Modernists” A History of the Harlem Renaissance, Cambridge UP, March 2021. 55 - 71.

"Edith Wharton," American Writers Supplement III. Ed. Jay Parini, Farmington Hills: Cengage Gale, 2017.

"Bich Minh Nguyen," "American Writers Supplement XXVI. Ed. Jay Parini, Farmington Hills: Cengage Gale, 2015.

"Arna Bontemps" American Writers Supplement XXII Ed. Jay Parini. Farmington Hills: Cengage Gale, 2011.

"Waldo Frank," American Writers Supplement XX Ed. Jay Parini. Farmington Hills: Cengage Gale, 2010.

“Waldo Frank,” The Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Fiction, ed. Justus Nieland and Patrick O'Donnell, London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. “Teaching Waldo Frank’s Holiday” in Teaching the Harlem Renaissance: Course Design and Classroom Strategies ed. Michael Soto, Peter Lang, 2007.

Entries on “Edwin Arlington Robinson,” “Wallace Stevens,” and “Dorothy West” in The Encyclopedia of New England, Yale University Press, 2005.

Essay on “African American Literature” in The Encyclopedia of New England, Yale University Press (2005).

Essay on “White Novelists and the Harlem Renaissance” in Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, Routledge (2004).

Essay on “Nigger Heaven” in Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, Routledge (2004).

“The Limits of Identity in Jessie Fauset’s Plum Bun,” Legacy (Spring 2001) 79-93.

“Individualism, Success, and American Identity in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man,” African American Review (Fall 1996) 403-419.

“A Comment on ‘Crossing Lines’,” College English 55 (1993) 669-671.

"Summer and Its Critics' Discomfort.” Women's Studies 20.2 (1991) 141-152.

Creative Writing
Ink: A Memoir, winner of the 2018 Michigan Writer's Chapbook Contest, published by the Michigan Writer's Cooperative Press

“Why She Hates Me,” Bateau 8.1 (2018)

“Baby,” Blackberry Winter, Spring 2018

“Under Water,” The Sun Magazine, March, 2017

“Pregnant.” The Bear River Review 2013, ed. Monica Rico.

“Transit.” The Bear River Review 2012, ed. Monica Rico.