Tessa Roynon
Academic Position:
Senior Research Fellow
Research Interests:
North American literature, African American literature
Tessa Roynon is a specialist in modern North American literature. She is particularly interested in African American literature, and her recent publications have focused on the ways in which modern American writers engage with and revise ancient Greek and Roman culture
Her most recent book, The Classical Tradition in Modern American Fiction explores how modern American novelists ranging from Willa Cather and William Faulkner to Toni Cade Bambara and Percival Everett ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, for example in their representations of racial and/or ethnic politics and identities.
She is the author of two books on Toni Morrison: The Cambridge Introduction to Toni Morrison (CUP 2012), and the monograph, Toni Morrison and the Classical Tradition (OUP 2013), which was awarded the Toni Morrison Society Book Prize for best single-authored book in 2015. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on this author, including in the Journal of American Studies and African American Review.
Her co-edited projects include the essay collection, Global Ralph Ellison (2021), and a special issue of the International Journal of the Classical Tradition on the theme of 'Ovid and Identity in the Twenty-First Century'.
| # | Resource Title | Description | Contributor |
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| 1 | The Modern American Novel: An Introduction | This lecture surveys the historical and cultural contexts of six important modern American novels:… | Tessa Roynon |
| 2 | The Modern American Novel: An Introduction | Tessa Roynon | |
| 3 | African American Literature: An Introduction | This lecture gives an overview of key writings by black American authors, beginning with the slave… | Tessa Roynon |
| 4 | African American Literature: An Introduction | Tessa Roynon | |
| 5 | Toni Morrison: An Introduction | This lecture surveys the life and work of one of America’s greatest novelists, Toni Morrison (1931-… | Tessa Roynon |
| 6 | Toni Morrison: An Introduction | Tessa Roynon |