Professor Daphne Lamothe

Daphne Lamothe received her B.A. from Yale University and her PhD in English from the University of California at Berkeley (1997). Her research interests center on the intersection of ethnography and the African-American imagination, the construction of cultural memory in contemporary Black fiction and narratives of migration and Diaspora.  She has published a number of essays on these topics and is currently finishing a book on the ethnographic in the New Negro Renaissance, to be published by University of Pennsylvania Press.

Daphne joined the Smith faculty in 2004.  She taught African American Literature, 1746-1900 and the Harlem Renaissance.  She looks forward to adding Introduction to Black Culture and Literatures of African-American Migration to her roster of courses taught.