Zachary Riggins
Visiting Assistant Professor of IDS
School of Arts and Humanities
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Biography
Dr. Zachary Riggins specializes in postcritical and transnational approaches to 20th and 21st century literture. His reseach broadly explores the relationship between aesthetic and epistemology, with a particular focus on the compostion and rhetoric, technical writing, twenty-first century literature, multi-ethnic American literature, and transnation literature.
Education
| Degree | Major Emphasis | Institution | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| PhD | English | Texas A&M University | 2024 |
| BA | English | University of Maryland, Baltimore County | 2018 |
| BA | Philosophy | University of Maryland, Baltimore County | 2018 |
Research, Presentations & Publications
SCHOLARY PRESENTATION
- "Bartlebyan Feelings vs. Minor Feelings: Affect, Gender, and Race in John Okada's No-No Boy.' Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association. 2024
- "Against Recovery: Implicated Subjects and Benevolent Trauma in Toni Morrison's A Mercy." Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. 2024
- Affect and the Anticipation of Racially-Motivated Violence in Wright's Native Son and Coates's Between the World and Me." Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association. 2023
- Autobiography and Archive: Illuminating Structural Violence with Critical Fabulation in Jaquira Díaz's Ordinary Girls. American Comparative Literature Association. 2023
- "The Master, The Magician, and the Man from Enniscorthy: Biofication as Irish Autobiography." American Conference for Irish Studies. 2022
- "Knowing was like dying': Painful Epiphanies and Micoaggressions in Brown Girl, Brownstones." Northeast Moder Language Association. 2022