Prof. Dan Barlow, Ph.D.

Publications

• “Composing Post-Multiculturalism.” College Composition and Communication 67.3
• “Blues Narrative Form, African American Fiction, and the African Diaspora.” Narrative 24.2
• “Literary Ethnomusicology and the Soundscape of Jean Toomer’s Cane.” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 39.1
• “As Simple as Sharing? Intellectual Property and an Ethnomusicology of Fairness.” Society for Ethnomusicology Student News 2
• “Kimberly Ruffin’s Black on Earth: African American Ecoliterary Traditions.” Journal of American Studies 46.4 (Book Review)
• “‘And every day there is music’: Folksong Roots and the Highway Chain Gang in The Ballad of the Sad Café.” The Southern Literary Journal 44.1

Presentations

• “Listening to African American Literature: An Aural Pedagogy.” MLA
• “Pushing Play: Sound, Pedagogy, and the Geopolitics of Form in Bailey’s Cafe.” MELUS
• “Teaching Blues Literature.” Rocky Mountain MLA “Diaspora, History, and Blues Narrativity in the African American Novel.” Rocky Mountain MLA
• “Inquiry after Identity: Race, Place, and the Historical Now.” MELUS
• “Planetarity as Keyword in Literary and Cultural Studies.” Pitt Humanities Center
• “Black Arts and Blues Violence: The Blues of Amiri Baraka.” Pitt Grad Student Expo
• “Jimi Hendrix and the Politics of Blackness.” MLA
• “Sound Writing: The Critical Ethnomusicology of Jean Toomer’s Cane.” American Literature Association
• “Time, Place, and Race in the Migratory Lyrics of Sam Hopkins.” Midwest MLA
• “Folksong Roots and the Highway Chain Gang in The Ballad of the Sad Café.” Southern Writers/Southern Writing