Alexandra Meany

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Washington

ameany@lsu.edu
245-B2 Allen Hall

Curriculum Vitae

Biography

Alexandra Meany is an Assistant Professor of English at Louisiana State University. She received her Ph.D. at the University of Washington and she specializes in 20th and 21st-century Multi-Ethnic U.S. Literature and the Urban Humanities. Her research is interested in how the U.S. city produces ideas about race. She is currently working on a book project that examines processes of urban removal and spatial contest in post-1945 Multi-Ethnic literature.

Area(s) of Interest

20th and 21st-century Multi-ethnic American literature, urban humanities, studies of comparative racialization, women of color feminisms, critiques of colonial racial capitalism, space/place, and social movements