Dr. Abigail T. Horne
Associate Professor of English
English
Morton Hall, 020
Phone:
(434) 223-6247
Email:
ahorne@hsc.edu
Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis, 2012
B.A., Mount Holyoke College, 2004
African American Literature
19th century American Literature
Early 20th century American Literature
American Film
Critical Race Studies
Gender Studies
"Unmaking the Self-Made Man: Fortune and (Fore)Fathers in the Autobiographies of Langston Hughes" The Langston Hughes Review, Vol. 26, No. 2 (2020), pp. 139-159.
"A Slave's Story: Review of the Book and Film Versions of Twelve Years a Slave," The Common Reader: Ideas and Inquiry from Washington University in St. Louis, February 2014.
"The Color of Manhood: Reconsidering Pompey in John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," Black Camera, Indiana University Press, November 2012.
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Washington University in St. Louis, 2012-2013
Dissertation Fellowship, Washington University in St. Louis, 2011-2012
Helm Visiting Scholar Fellowship, Indiana University at Bloomington, 2011