Faculty

Michael Bennett

Professor of English

B.A., Whitman CollegeM.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia

michael.bennett@liu.edu

Specialties

Abolition Movement, African-American Literature, Slavery, Urban Ecological Criticism

Publications

• Co-editor, “Recovering the Body: Self-Representations by African American Women”
• Co-editor, “The Nature of Cities: Ecocriticism and Urban Environments”
• Author, “The Nature of Slavery: Frederick Douglass and Anti-Pastoralism,” published in “Beyond Nature Writing”
• Co-author, “We Can See Them, But We Can’t Hear Them: LGBT Members of African American Families,” published in “Queer Families, Queer Politics: Challenging Culture and the State”
• Author, “African American Families and Public Policy: The Legacy of the Moynihan Report,” published in “African Americans and the Public Agenda: The Paradoxes of Public Policy”