Catherine Saunders

Catherine C. Saunders is a PhD Candidate in African American Literature at Howard University. Her dissertation examines Black interiority across four matrices, sound, maternity, cultural geographies, and history to delineate the insurrectionary power of African American literature. Her dissertation functions with intentions to challenge the flattening of Black people and Black culture by turning the lens casted onto them inside out.

Publications

Afrodemia: The Interior Essence of African American Literature as Manifested in the Black Institution
Afrodemia: The Interior Essence of African American Literature as Manifested in the Black Institution
Catherine Saunders. © 2024. 21 pages.
This chapter examines the unique relationship between African American literature and the historically black institution, arguing that the cultural geographies that permeate the...