Gretchen Gerzina

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Gretchen Gerzina
Born1950 (age 74–75)
Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
Other namesGretchen Holbrook Gerzina
Occupation(s)Historian, author, academic
Notable workBlack England: Life Before Emancipation
SpouseAnthony Gerzina
Children2
Website gretchengerzina.com

Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina (born 1950) is an American author and academic who has written mostly historically-grounded biographical studies. She has written about Black British history. [1] [2] Her academic posts have included being the Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor of Biography at Dartmouth College, working as a professor at Vassar College, being a professor and a director of Africana Studies at Barnard College, and as of April 2019 being the Dean of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Commonwealth Honors College. [3] Gerzina was the host of WAMC's nationally-syndicated radio program The Book Show for fourteen years, where she interviewed authors. [4]

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In the UK, she presented a 10-part documentary for BBC Radio 4 called Britain's Black Past, [5] which she subsequently adapted into a book. [6] [7]

Personal life

She was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and moved to Springfield, Massachusetts, just before she was five years old. [4] She is married to Anthony Gerzina and they have two sons. [4]

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ Sudan, R. (2013). Fair Exotics: Xenophobic Subjects in English Literature, 172-185. New Cultural Studies. University of Pennsylvania Press, Incorporated. p. 104. ISBN   978-0-8122-0376-9 . Retrieved 2024-06-21.
  2. ↑ "Private Passions: Gretchen Gerzina". BBC Media Centre. 4 October 2020. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  3. ↑ "About Us | Dean Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina". Commonwealth Honors College. University of Massachusetts Amherst. Archived from the original on March 28, 2019.
  4. 1 2 3 "About Gretchen Gerzina". gretchengerzina.com. Retrieved June 12, 2023.
  5. ↑ "Britain's Black Britain". BBC Radio 4. October 2016. Retrieved June 12, 2023.
  6. ↑ Gerzina, Gretchen (March 11, 2020). Britain's Black Past. Liverpool University Press. ISBN   978-1789621600.
  7. ↑ Adi, Hakim (2022). "Reviewed Work: Britain's Black Past by Gretchen H. Gerzina". New West Indian Guide. 96 (1/2): 183–184. doi: 10.1163/22134360-09601002 . JSTOR   27130500 . Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  8. ↑ Rogers, P. (1996). "Black England - Life before emancipation". The Times Literary Supplement : 8.
  9. ↑ Barthelemy, A. G. (1997). "Black London: Life before Emancipation". African American Review (31 ed.): 508. doi:10.2307/3042578. JSTOR   3042578.
  10. ↑ Porter, R. (1995). "Black London: Life Before Emancipation". The New York Times Book Review (30 ed.).
  11. ↑ Walter, Natasha (May 8, 2004). "Review | Sugar and spice". The Guardian . Retrieved June 12, 2023.
  12. ↑ Mills, C. (2004). "Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Unexpected Life of the Author of The Secret Garden (review)". Children's Literature Association Quarterly (29 ed.): 270–272.
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