Alexandra Meany
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Washington
ameany@lsu.edu
245-B2 Allen Hall
Biography
Alexandra Lee Meany is an Assistant Professor of English and an affiliate faculty member in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at Louisiana State University. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Washington and specializes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century multiethnic U.S. literature, Indigenous literatures and cultures, and the urban humanities. Her research examines how U.S. cities both shape and are shaped by ongoing settler colonialism and racial formations. Her work has appeared in MELUS, with articles forthcoming in Pacific Coast Philology and Memory Studies Review. She is currently working on a book project that investigates processes of urban removal and spatial contestation in post-1945 multiethnic literature.
Area(s) of Interest
20th and 21st-century multiethnic US literature, Indigenous literatures and cultures, urban humanities, studies of comparative racialization, women of color feminisms, critiques of colonial racial capitalism, space/place, and social movements