Leslie Sanders
Professor
Office: 225 Vanier College
Phone: 416-736-2100 Ext: 66604
Email: leslie@yorku.ca
Professor Leslie Sanders works in African American and Black Canadian literatures. She teaches in Humanities, Graduate English, and the Writing Department. In 2003, she was made a University Professor. She is webmaster for African Canadian Online (www.yorku.ca/aconline)
Professor Leslie Sanders works in African American and Black Canadian literatures. She is the author of The Development of Black Theater in America (l988), a general editor of the Collected Works of Langston Hughes, and the volume editor for two volumes of plays and other performance works. Aside from publications on Hughes, she has published on such Black Canadian writers as Austin Clarke, Dionne Brand, Nourbese Philip, Claire Harris, George Elliot Clarke, Maxine Tynes and Djanet Sears. She is a founder of the Centre for the Study of Black Cultures in Canada and webmaster for African Canadian Online (www.yorku.ca/aconline).
Degrees
PhD, University of TorontoResearch Interests
Current Research Projects
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Description:
SSHRC Public Outreach Grant 2010
Funders:
Social Sciences and Humanities Council, Canada
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Description:
SSHRC Image, Text, Sound and Technology Grant, 2010
Funders:
Social Sciences and Humanities Council, Canada
2009 Editor, with Introduction. Fierce Departures: The Poetry of Dionne Brand. Wilfrid Laurier Press.
Editor, Gospel Plays, Operas, and Late Dramatic Works. Volume 6. The Collected Works of Langston Hughes. University of Missouri Press. 2004. 672 p.
2010 Early Works of Dionne Brand. Introduction. Wilfrid Laurier Press. In Press.
2007 Entry for Claire Harris, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 334, Gale Press, 2007: 89-95.
2007 “Four Black Film Documentary Moments.” in Multiple Lenses - Voices from the Diaspora located in Canada. Ed. David Divine. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 196-204.
2006 “Reason Not Justice: Introduction to Andrew Moodie," The Real McCoy. Playwrights Canada Press, 2006: iii-v.
Entries for Andre Alexis, Austin Clarke, Dionne Brand, George Elliott Clarke, M. Nourbese Philip, Djanet Sears, Maxine Tynes. Encyclopaedia of the African Diaspora, in press
2004 Review of What Can a Black Critic Do?, Donna Baily Nurse, Canadian Literature.
2010 “Surprising Narratives: African Canadian Autobiography”. Canada and Beyond, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain
2004 “Dionne Brand’s Poetics of Location: Beyond Another Place, Not Here”. Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars Assocation, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
2003 “The Planet of Junior Brown,” Canadian Association of American Studies, Winnipeg.
“Dionne Brand," Border Crossings: A Sourcebook on Caribbean Writers in Canada. Eds. Hyacinth Simpson and Frank Birbalsingh. Coconut Creek, Florida: Caribbean Studies Press. (Forthcoming)
“What the Poet Does for Us” in No Language Is Neutral: Essays on Dionne Brand. Eds. Dina Georgis, Katherine McKittrick and Rinaldo Walcott. Wilfrid Laurier Press. (Forthcoming)
Professor Leslie Sanders works in African American and Black Canadian literatures. She teaches in Humanities, Graduate English, and the Writing Department. In 2003, she was made a University Professor. She is webmaster for African Canadian Online (www.yorku.ca/aconline)
Professor Leslie Sanders works in African American and Black Canadian literatures. She is the author of The Development of Black Theater in America (l988), a general editor of the Collected Works of Langston Hughes, and the volume editor for two volumes of plays and other performance works. Aside from publications on Hughes, she has published on such Black Canadian writers as Austin Clarke, Dionne Brand, Nourbese Philip, Claire Harris, George Elliot Clarke, Maxine Tynes and Djanet Sears. She is a founder of the Centre for the Study of Black Cultures in Canada and webmaster for African Canadian Online (www.yorku.ca/aconline).
Degrees
PhD, University of TorontoResearch Interests
Current Research Projects
-
Description:
SSHRC Public Outreach Grant 2010
Project Type: FundedRole: PI: Professor Leslie Sanders, York University
Funders:
Social Sciences and Humanities Council, Canada
-
Description:
SSHRC Image, Text, Sound and Technology Grant, 2010
Project Type: FundedRole: PI: Professor Leslie Sanders, York University
Funders:
Social Sciences and Humanities Council, Canada
All Publications
2010 Early Works of Dionne Brand. Introduction. Wilfrid Laurier Press. In Press.
2007 Entry for Claire Harris, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 334, Gale Press, 2007: 89-95.
2007 “Four Black Film Documentary Moments.” in Multiple Lenses - Voices from the Diaspora located in Canada. Ed. David Divine. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 196-204.
2006 “Reason Not Justice: Introduction to Andrew Moodie," The Real McCoy. Playwrights Canada Press, 2006: iii-v.
Entries for Andre Alexis, Austin Clarke, Dionne Brand, George Elliott Clarke, M. Nourbese Philip, Djanet Sears, Maxine Tynes. Encyclopaedia of the African Diaspora, in press
2004 Review of What Can a Black Critic Do?, Donna Baily Nurse, Canadian Literature.
2009 Editor, with Introduction. Fierce Departures: The Poetry of Dionne Brand. Wilfrid Laurier Press.
Editor, Gospel Plays, Operas, and Late Dramatic Works. Volume 6. The Collected Works of Langston Hughes. University of Missouri Press. 2004. 672 p.
2010 “Surprising Narratives: African Canadian Autobiography”. Canada and Beyond, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain
2004 “Dionne Brand’s Poetics of Location: Beyond Another Place, Not Here”. Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars Assocation, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
2003 “The Planet of Junior Brown,” Canadian Association of American Studies, Winnipeg.
“Dionne Brand," Border Crossings: A Sourcebook on Caribbean Writers in Canada. Eds. Hyacinth Simpson and Frank Birbalsingh. Coconut Creek, Florida: Caribbean Studies Press. (Forthcoming)
“What the Poet Does for Us” in No Language Is Neutral: Essays on Dionne Brand. Eds. Dina Georgis, Katherine McKittrick and Rinaldo Walcott. Wilfrid Laurier Press. (Forthcoming)
