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Academic Summary

Christopher Allan Black is a member of the American Literature faculty and an Instructor in the Core Literature and First Year Composition programs at the University of 糖心Vlog传媒. His research focuses on social justice and republican reform movements of the antebellum period. Dr. Black is also the President of the and the Associate Editor for The James Fenimore Cooper Society Journal. 

Education

Ph.D. Oklahoma State University, 2012 M.A. California State University, Fullerton, 2006 B.A. California State University, Long Beach, 2000

 

Publications

Books

• Lanham, MD: Lexington Books 2025. 

Peer-Reviewed Articles 

• 鈥淪lavery and Plantation Stewardship: The Eighteenth-Century Georgics of James Grainger and Phillip Freneau.鈥� Eighteenth Century Environmental Humanities Edited Collection Bucknell, UP Jeremy Chow Editor (October 2022).
• "The Demon Firewater: The Drunken Indian and Native American Temperance in James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales and William Apess's A Son of the Forest." James Fenimore Cooper Society Journal. University of Northwestern St. Paul. Stephen P. Harthorne Editor. Vol. 83, No. 1. (Spring 2022). 
• 鈥淐ultural Preservation or Annihilation of the Noble Savage? James Fenimore Cooper and William Gilmore Simms debate Indian Removal in the Literary Age of Jackson鈥� James Fenimore Cooper Society Journal University of Northwestern St. Paul Stephen P. Hathorne Editor Vol 31 No. 1. 85 Spring 2020.
• 鈥淟incoln鈥檚 Revolutionary Rhetoric in Doris Kearns Goodwin鈥檚 Team of Rivals and the Historiographic Elegies of Walt Whitman.鈥� Philological Review. Monticello, AR. Department of English University of Arkansas, Monticello Vol 39 No. 1 (2013).
• 鈥淢ilton鈥檚 Colonial America: Ecology Empire and Stewardship in Paradise Lost.鈥� Watermark: Journal of the Graduate Program in English at California State University Long Beach. Long Beach, CA. Department of English CSULB Vol. 5 (2011): 215-237.
• 鈥淔rederick Douglass, Daniel O鈥� Connell, and the Transatlantic Failure of Irish American Abolitionism.鈥� Making Connections: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cultural Diversity A publication of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education and the Frederick Douglass Institute Collaborative- Special issue Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Frederick Douglass. Bloomsburg, PA: Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, 12.1 (2010): 17-25.
• 鈥淓nlightenment Science and Ethnographic Sight in the South Seas Captivity Narratives of Lionel Wafer and Herman Melville.鈥� Intersections: A Trimestral Publication of the American Studies Program at the University of Bucharest. Bucharest, Romania, 3.11 (2010): 1-12.
• 鈥淭he Demon Firewater: The Drunken Indian and Native American Temperance in James Fenimore Cooper鈥檚 Leatherstocking Tales and William Apess鈥檚 A Son of the Forest.鈥� James Fenimore Cooper Society Journal University of Northwestern St. Paul Stephen P. Harthorne Editor Vol 83  No. 1. 89 Spring 2022. 
• 鈥淰esey and Gordon鈥檚 Righteous Insurrection: The Legacy of Denmark Vesey鈥檚 Natural Rights Philosophy in Harriet Beecher Stowe鈥檚 Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp.鈥� Rocky Mountain Review Johns Hopkins University Press (Forthcoming Fall 2022). 

Book Reviews, Journalism, and Peer-Reviewed Reports 

• The Wing and Wing or Le-Feu-Follet A Tale Edited by Lance Schacterle and Anna Scanvini by James Fenimore Cooper State University of New York Press Edition The James Fenimore Cooper Society Journal (Spring 2021).
• Humboldt and Jefferson: A Transatlantic Friendship of the Enlightenment. By Sandra Rebok New Perspective on the Eighteenth Century. Journal of the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Auburn, AL: Auburn University, (Fall 2014).
• Renegade Revolutionary: The Life of General Charles Lee. By Phillip Papas. New Perspective on the Eighteenth Century. Journal of the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Auburn, AL: Auburn University, (Fall 2014).
• Mary Chestnut鈥檚 Civil War Epic. By Julia A. Stern Journal of the Midwestern Modern Language Association. Chicago, IL: Loyola University, (Spring 2013).

Fellowships

• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute; Transcendentalism and Social Reform: Activism and Community Engagement in the Age of Thoreau. Professor Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, Pennsylvania State University Altoona and Professor Diane Whitley Grote, Austin Community College. June 26- July 9, 2022 Concord, MA Summer Fellowship Scholar.

Guest Lectures

• Guest Lecture for International Summer Program: English 451 American Romanticism on Transcendentalism in Henry David Thoreau鈥檚 Walden and Life Without Principle. July 14, 2022, Walden Pond Reserve Concord, Massachusetts. Dr. Nancy Lusignan Schultz, Professor of English Salem State University, Salem Massachusetts.