Joanne Lipson Freed

540 O'Dowd Hall
248-370-2255
[email protected]

Associate Professor of English
Ph.D. University of Michigan

Areas of study

Contemporary literature, U.S. ethnic literature, postcolonial literature, narrative theory, gender studies, literature and technology

Current Research

My current book project, “The Novel of Formation in the Era of the Algorithm,” explores how digital technology is changing the way we understand subjectivity and social belonging in the twenty-first century, and consequently reshaping the canonical form of the bildungsroman or coming-of-age novel.

Publications

“What Can’t We Believe?: The Persuasive Power of Disnarration in Contemporary Fiction.” Narrative, vol. 28, no. 2, 2020, pp. 200–214. 

Haunting Encounters: The Ethics of Reading across Boundaries of Difference. Cornell University Press, 2017. [Google Preview]

“Invisible Victims, Visible Absences: Imagining Disappearance for an International Audience.” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature vol.43, no. 2, 2013, pp. 25–44.

“Gendered Narratives of Trauma and Revision in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora.” African American Review vol. 44 no. 3, 2011, pp. 409–420.

“The Ethics of Identification: The Global Circulation of Traumatic Narrative in Silko’s Ceremony and Roy’s The God of Small Things.” Comparative Literature Studies vol. 48 no. 2: 219-240.  

“Invisible Victims, Visible Absences: Imagining Disappearance for an International Audience.” Forthcoming in ARIEL 43.2.

African American Review: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/african_american_review/v044/44.3.freed.html

Comparative Literature Studies: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/comparative_literature_studies/v048/48.2.freed.html

“The Ethics of Identification: The Global Circulation of Traumatic Narrative in Silko’s Ceremony and Roy’s The God of Small Things.” Comparative Literature Studies 48.2: 219-240.