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Courtney Thorsson

Courtney Thorsson
Courtney Thorsson is an associate professor of English at the University of Oregon and the author of Women’s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women’s Novels (2013). She is the recipient of a Public Scholars Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities.


How Michele Wallace Sought Black Women’s Liberation Through Art

Courtney Thorsson on the Emergence of a Black Feminist Literary Culture in America
November 17, 2023  By Courtney Thorsson
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