Literary Studies and American Culture Literary Studies and American Culture: Cultural and Social patterns in late- Capitalism/Postmodernity especially as they are represented in spatial and geographic terms; cultural production including American Literature, particularly African American literature and cultural production, including Black music, American ethnic literatures, American poetic traditions; Blues Aesthetic, Blues poetry, Jazz Poetry, urban studies and the engagement between place, space, and cultural production. Poetry by Michael S. Harper, Sterling D. Plumpp, Gwendolyn Brooks. I am working to develop an understanding of Conspiracy and Underground as
American Cultural templates.