Recent Publications by Vincent Carretta
December 01, 2022
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Emeritus Professor Vincent Carretta share his recent honors and publications
Vincent Carretta received an Honorable Mention in the Competition for the Modern Language Association Prize for a Scholarly Edition, for The Writings of Phillis Wheatley (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), 2022.
He also has an impressive list of recent publications to share:
- Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man. Revised paperback edition (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2022).
- “Olaudah Equiano and Black Evangelicals,” in The Oxford Handbook of Early Evangelicalism, ed. Jonathan Yeager (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022).
- “Phillis Wheatley and the Rhetoric of Politics and Race,” in African American Political Thought: A Collected History, eds. Melvin Rogers and Jack Turner (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021).
- “Black Intellectual History in the Period of Abolition before Abolition,” in Ideas in Unexpected Places: Reimagining Black Intellectual History, eds. Brandon R. Byrd and Russell Rickford (Evanston: University of Northwestern Press, 2021).
- “Strangers in Strange Lands: Comparative Religion in the Eighteenth-Century Black Atlantic,” in Through Your Eyes: Debating Religious Alterities (16th-18th Centuries), eds. Giovanni Tarantino and Paola von Wyss-Giacosa, with the collaboration of Giuseppe Marcocci (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2021).
- “Scholar’s Musings: ‘Philip Quaque,’” Society of Early Americanists Newsletter 33:1 (2021), 9-10.
- “Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, a Self-Made Man,” in “Black Lives in the Founding Era,” issue 60 of History Now, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Summer 2021.
- “Phillis Wheatley, a ‘Genius in Bondage,’” in “Black Lives in the Founding Era,” issue 60 of History Now, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Summer 2021.
- “Revisiting Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa,” in New Writings on Britain’s Black Past: The Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries, ed. Gretchen Gerzina (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020).