Faculty: Lise Esdaile
Lise Esdaile graduated summa cumme laude from Hunter College
with a degree in English and Women's Studies. She is working on her
dissertation, which focuses on womanist detectives in
African-American literature.
Her areas of specialiazation are African-American literature
and theory, as well as women's and cinema studies. She currently teaches
courses in the African and African American, English, and LEH
departments, as well as in the Freshman Year Initiative Program.
She was the recipient of the Dean K. Harrison Fellowship, and
is a co-founder and past co-chair of the Africana Studies Group at the
CUNY Graduate Center. She created the Africana Studies Group listserv, a
place for discussion and networking that continues to serve scholars in
the field. In 2000, she organized a subcommittee to create and
institute a Concentration in Africana Studies at The Graduate Center,
which was approved by the Graduate Council in 2004. In 2004, she
organized and chaired a national conference on Black Feminisms at the
Graduate Center.
Maybe the truest thing to be said about racism is that it represents a profound failure of the imagination.
--Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
--Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Last modified: May 9, 2012
