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David Mark Diamond teaches and writes about eighteenth-century British literature and the early Black Atlantic, with particular emphasis on the role that religion plays in the formation (or re-formation) of imperial global imaginaries. His current research explores literary responses to secularization, or the process by which Christian belief came unbound from singular doctrinal orthodoxy and this newly liberalized religion was grafted more…

Ph.D., Rutgers University, New Brunswick B.A., The College of William & Mary

Dr. Feracho is the associate director of the Institute for African American Studies and an Associate Professor of Romance Languages and African American Studies. She received her B.A. in Spanish from Cornell University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Duke University, and is a scholar of Afro-Hispanic literature. Her research focuses on comparative studies of twentieth century Afro-Hispanic and African American women's narrative, African American and…

Carolyn Jones Medine is the inaugural All Shall Be Well Professor in the Religion Department and Director of the Institute for African American Studies. She completed her PhD at the University of Virginia in 1991, working with the late Professor Nathan A. Scott, Jr. Dr. Medine taught at Louisiana State University from 1989-2000, when she came to UGA. Alongside her appointments in Religion and IAAS, she is also affiliate faculty with Women's…