Denson Staples

Denson Staples

Graduate Tutor
Ph.D. candidate, Religion

Dissertation Topic:
Examining the relationship between Black theology and Black literature from the post-war period through the late 1980s with special attention to theoretical articulations of Blackness, on one hand, and critical-theoretical discourses of freedom, such as abolition, emancipation, and liberation, on the other.

Research Methods:
Textual and discourse analysis; archival research; cultural and intellectual historical methods

Languages:
English, German, Spanish, New Testament Greek

Areas of Interest:
Black theology, Black political and social thought, Black internationalism, African-American literature, philosophy of history, philosophy of race, textual studies, literary criticism and theory

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