Eve Dunbar
Eve Dunbar is Professor of English on the Jean Webster Chair at Vassar College. Her research and teaching focus on late-19th-century to contemporary African American literature and culture. Dunbar’s most recent monograph is Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction: Black Women Writing under Segregation (2024).
Eve Dunbar is Professor of English on the Jean Webster Chair at Vassar College. Her research and teaching focus on late-19th-century to contemporary African American literature and culture. Dunbar is the author of Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction: Black Women Writing under Segregation (2024), Black Regions of the Imagination: African American Writers Between the Nation and the World (2012) and co-editor of African American Literature in Transition: 1930-1940 (2022). Her scholarly articles and review essays can be found in American Literature, African American Review, Callaloo: Art and Culture in the African Diaspora, Journal of American History, and South Atlantic Quarterly. Her more public-facing writing can be found in The Nation, Jezebel, Colorlines, and Literary Hub. Dunbar is an American Council of Learned Societies Burkhardt Fellow (2016-17) and a W.E.B. Dubois Fellow at Harvard University's Hutchins Center for African and African American Research (2020-21). In addition to teaching in the English Department, she regularly teaches and contributes to Vassar's American Studies and Africana Studies Programs.
Research and Academic Interests
African American Literary Studies, Black Studies, Black Feminism, Women’s Literature, The Black Left, and Cultural Studies.
