updated & abbreviated Sept. 2016 Emily Jeanne Lordi EMPLOYMENT: Associate Professor of English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, September 2016-­‐present Assistant Professor of English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, September 2011-­‐August 2016 Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Cornell University, July 2009-­‐July 2011 EDUCATION: Ph.D., English and Comparative Literature (with Distinction), Columbia University, October 2009 M.A., English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 2003 B.A., English (minor, Art History), Vassar College, 2001 (summa cum laude; Alice D. Snyder Award for Excellence in English) Visiting Scholar in English, Worcester College, Oxford University, 2000-­‐2001 BOOKS: Black Resonance: Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature, Rutgers University Press, 2013 • Reviewed in Choice, Paste Magazine, MELUS, American Literary History Online, Journal of American Culture • Chapter two reprinted in The Mahalia Jackson Reader, ed. Mark Burford (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2017) Soul Sounds: Literature, Music, and the Rise of Modern Black Style (in progress) Donny Hathaway Live, Bloomsbury Academic (33⅓ series), forthcoming Oct. 2016 ARTICLES: “’black and going on women’: Lucille Clifton, Elizabeth Alexander, and the Poetry of Grief,” forthcoming in Palimpsest, 2017 “Souls Intact: The Soul Performances of Audre Lorde, Aretha Franklin, and Nina Simone,” Women & Performance 26.1 (July 2016) “James Baldwin and the Sound of Soul,” forthcoming in New Centennial Review (special issue ed. John Drabinski and Grant Farred), 2016 “Fading Out: White Flight and Sly and the Family Stone’s ‘Stand!,’” Journal of Popular Music Studies 24.3 (September 2012) “‘Window Seat’: Erykah Badu, Projective Cultural Politics, and the Obama Era,” Post45: Peer Reviewed, December 2011 BOOK CHAPTERS: “Jazz and Blues Modernisms,” The Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel, ed. Joshua L. Miller, 2015 “Black Radio: Robert Glasper, Esperanza Spalding, Janelle Monáe,” forthcoming in Are You Entertained? New Essays on Black Popular Culture in the 21st Century, ed. S. Drake, D. Ikard, D. Simmons, foreword by Mark Anthony Neal, 2016 BIBLIOGRAPHIC WORK: “Post-­‐Soul Aesthetics,” Oxford Bibliographies online, forthcoming 2016 SELECTED PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP: “Michael Jackson Died 7 Years Ago and His Legacy Still Eludes Us,” The Root, June 25, 2016 “Beyoncé’s Other Women: Considering the Soul Muses of Lemonade,” The Fader, May 6, 2016 “How Prince Grieved,” The Fader, April 22, 2016 “Luminous Loss,” review of Light of the World, by Elizabeth Alexander, Los Angeles Review of Books, June 4, 2015 “Why is Academic Writing So Beautiful? Notes on Black Feminist Scholarship,” The Feminist Wire, March 5, 2014 “Beyoncé’s Boundaries” (review of Beyoncé’s BEYONCÉ), New Black Man (in Exile), December 18, 2013 “Black Magic, White Soul” (review of Muscle Shoals documentary), The New Inquiry, October 19, 2013 “Calling All Stars: Janelle Monáe’s Black Feminist Futures” (review of Janelle Monáe’s The Electric Lady), The Feminist Wire, September 25, 2013 2
EDITORIAL WORK: Editor of Exhibitions, Jazz at Lincoln Center, 2008-­‐2011 Book Review Editor, Callaloo, 2009-­‐2010 INVITED PRESENTATIONS & CONFERENCE PAPERS (Recent and Upcoming): “Natural Women: Toward a Queer Female Soul Aesthetic” (paper), American Studies Association, Denver, CO, November 17-­‐20, 2016 “Sula as a Soul Text” (paper) & “New Perspectives on Aesthetics and Resistance” (roundtable), Celebrating African American Literature Conference, Penn State, October 28-­‐29, 2016 “Soul Sisters: Black Power Music from Nina Simone to Beyoncé” (lecture), Quinsigamond Community College, Worcester, MA, October 3, 2016 “Pop Music and American Culture” (panelist), NEH 50th Anniversary Symposium, University of Virginia, September 14-­‐17, 2016 “Amazing Grace: Performing Soul in the Black Power Era” (lecture), Columbia University, April 28, 2016 “Erykah Badu’s Afropresentism” (paper), EMP Pop Conference, Seattle, April 15-­‐17, 2016 “The Meaning of Soul in American Culture” (lecture), George Mason University, February 11, 2016 "Comparative Americanisms/Modernisms” (roundtable), MLA, Austin, TX, January 7-­‐
10, 2016 “Subversive Singing” (chair), Feminist Theory and Music Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, August 6-­‐9, 2015 “Little Tenderness: Otis Redding’s Soul Aesthetic” (paper) & “The Platonic Erotic: Aretha Franklin and Donny Hathaway” (paper), EMP Pop Conference, Seattle, April 16-­‐19, 2015 “Bessie Smith Salon” (panelist), Barnard-­‐Columbia Blues Symposium, Columbia University, February 13-­‐14, 2015 “Black Sounds Matter: African American Literature and Black Popular Music” (lecture), University of Georgia, January 22, 2015 “Unfinished Business—Keyword ‘Strategy’” (American Literature Section panel) & “Black Feminism and Academic Prose” (paper), MLA, Vancouver, January 7-­‐10, 2015 3
“Black Vocality: Cultural Memory, Identities, and Practices of African-­‐American Singing” Symposium (presenter), Columbia College, Chicago, November 18-­‐19, 2014 “Pleasure, Pain, Politics, and Performance: Black Women Artists and Their Fans” (roundtable), American Studies Association, Los Angeles, CA, November 6-­‐9, 2014 “‘I Woke Up Like This’: Beyoncé, Fabulousness, and the Ethics of Work” (lecture), Delta Xi Phi Faculty Lecture Series, UMass Amherst, November 3, 2014 “Radical Resonance: Black Popular Music and Literature” (lecture), UMass-­‐Amherst Faculty-­‐Student Dinner Hosted by Provost Katherine Newman, September 29, 2014 Plenary session on Stax Records (panelist), Association for the Study of African American Life Conference, Memphis, TN, September 24-­‐28, 2014 New England Americanist Collective workshop, Brown University, June 5-­‐7, 2014 “Black Radio” (paper), “The Queen and Her Court” (Beyoncé roundtable discussion), & “Critical Karaoke” performance (published in the Journal of Popular Music Studies, October 28, 2014), EMP Pop Conference, Seattle, April 24-­‐27, 2014 “Make Me Wanna Holler: Soul Singing and the On-­‐Key Scream” (paper), International Association for the Study of Popular Music, UNC-­‐Chapel Hill, March 13-­‐16, 2014 “How I Got Over: Ralph Ellison in the Soul Era” (paper), MELUS Ralph Ellison Centennial Conference, Oklahoma City, OK, March 6-­‐9, 2014 Columbia University Jazz Study Group participant, March 1-­‐2, 2014 “The Sound of Soul in the 21st Century” (paper), Critical Feminist Thought and the African Diaspora Symposium, UMass-­‐Amherst, February 28, 2014 INTERVIEWS, MEDIA, OUTREACH: “Bad/Dangerous/Invincible: Michael Jackson’s Epic Years,” Panel Discussion at Apollo Theater, Harlem, June 16, 2016 “A Rational Conversation: Do We Need New Old Soul Music?,” interview with Eric Ducker, NPR.org, September 15, 2015 “News One Now with Roland Martin,” discussion of Black Resonance, TV-­‐One and radio interviews, August 18, 2015 BONK reading series, with poets J. Michael Martinez and Jericho Brown, Racine, WI, November 22, 2014 33⅓ new author Q&A on Donny Hathaway Live, 333sound.com, October 23, 2014 4
Introduction and post-­‐screening discussion of Belle, Hartford Atheneum Theater, October 16, 2014 “Outkasted Conversations,” webcast conversation about Outkast with Regina Bradley, August 28, 2014 “Mary J. Blige’s ‘My Life,’” webcast conversation with Regina Bradley, Treva Lindsey, Tanisha Ford, June 19, 2014 (published in Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, no. 6 [2015]) Left of Black with Mark Anthony Neal, Duke University, April 14, 2014 “Feminists We Love” interview with The Feminist Wire, April 11, 2014 Black History Month discussion of Black Resonance, Amherst Club, Amherst, MA, February 11, 2014 “For the Record: Women Making and Writing About Music.” Fundraiser for Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls: Reading and performance with Daphne Brooks, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Alexandra Vazquez, Labyrinth Books, Princeton, NJ, December 15, 2013 COURSES TAUGHT AT UMASS-­‐AMHERST, 2011-­‐2017: Graduate: • Introduction to African American Literary Studies • African American Music and Literature • James Baldwin • James Baldwin and Toni Morrison Undergraduate: • Contemporary African American Literature, 1970-­‐Present • Contemporary African American Literature, 1987-­‐Present • Black Memoir, 1845-­‐2014 • African American Music and Literature • American Fiction, 1920-­‐Present • American Literature and Culture after 1865 (Honors) • American Identities: Recent U.S. Fiction, 2010-­‐2012 • Contemporary Black Women Writers 5