Recent Publications by Vincent Carretta

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).