Erica N Richardson

Education

Ph.D., English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University United States

M.A., English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University United States

B.A., English and Classical Civilization, Wellesley College Wellesley MA

Books

Richardson, E. (2025). How Black Women Count: Black Feminism, Literary Culture, and Black Progress. Columbia University Press . In Progress.

Richardson, E. N. Introduction and annotations to accompany a yet-to-be-titled collection of works written by Nella Larsen.. In Progress.

Journal Articles

(2025). “Ah Reckon It’s Enough”: Black Feminism, Racial Capitalism, and Embodied Black Economies in The Chip Woman’s Fortune (1923). MELUS (The Society for the Study of Multi Ethnic Literature of the United States), In Progress.

Richardson, E. (2020). Desire, Dispossession, and Dreams of Social Data: Black Clubwomen’s Intellectual Thought and Aesthetics during the Progressive Era in Public Writing and Print Culture. American Studies , (59.3 (2020)). 33-54.

Richardson, E. (2020).  The Trouble with Tags: The Challenges of Collaborative Metadata and Participatory Culture in Class Blogs  . Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy ,

Book Chapters

(2025). "I'll Take You There:" Reading Autotheory Through Black Feminism. Autotheories MIT Press. In Progress.

Race and Identity. Photography and Literary Studies Cambridge University Press. In Progress.

Presentations

Richardson, E. N. (2025, July 11). Ephemeral Stages, Enduring Pages: The Little Negro Theater Movement, Circulation, and Legacy of Harlem Renaissance Playwright Willis Richardson. SHARP (Society for History of Authoriship Reading and Publishing). Rochester Institute of Technology and Rochester University

Richardson, E. N. Performing Black Futures: Informal Labor and Celebration in Willis Richardson's The Chip Woman's Fortune (1923). ASTR (American Society for Theater Research) Ecologies of Time and Change. Seattle, WA: ASTR (American Society for Theater Research).

Richardson, E. N. (2025, November 11). Feminisms of Color, Embodied Belonging, and Autoassemblages. American Studies Association. New Orleans, LA

Richardson, E. N. Black Futures: Black Studies, Black Ecologies, and African Social Research. Black Futures Symposium. Baruch College: Baruch College Provost Research Innovation Seed Grant.

Richardson, E. N. "Unrequited Freedoms and Satisfying Objects: Nikki Giovanni’s My House (1972) as Autotheory". Autotheory and Black Feminism. Washington DC: Modern Language Association.

Richardson, E. N. "Bad Negros and New Futures: Black Masculinity and Alternative Visions of Progress in Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition". Awakenings, Reckonings and Multiethnic Literature: Woke, Now What?. New Orleans, LA: MELUS (The Social for the Study of Multi Ethnic Literature of the United States).

Richardson, E. (2021, January 9). "Theories of Black Women's Intellectualism in the 19th Century". Modern Language Association Conference. Virtual: Modern Language Association.

Richardson, E. (2021, March 16). Contributors and Editors' Panel on Arts in the Black Press During Age of Jim Crow. The Arts in the Black Press During the Age of Jim Crow. virtual: American Studies, with American Studies International.

Richardson, E. (2021, August 3). Such is Aunt Nancy: Gender, Racial Capitalism, and the Little Negro Theater Movement. Institute for Poverty and the Humanities, Borough of Manhattan Community College. Virtual: Borough of Manhattan Community College; National Endowment for the Humanities.

Richardson, E. (2021, April 15). Stronger Together: Black CUNY Faculty, Staff, and Students Surviving Dual Pandemics. CUNY Faculty Diversity and Inclusion Conference 2021. Virtual: CUNY.

Richardson, E. (2020, March 8). The Sociological Sublime: Social Science, Citizenship, and Black Clubwomen’s Periodical Culture. Shaping and Sharing Identities: Spaces, Places, Languages, and Cultures. Boston, MA: Northeast Modern Language Association.

Richardson, E. (2019, March 21). The Innumeracy of the Red Record on the Page and on the Stage. Transnational Spaces: Intersections of Cultures, Languages, and Peoples. Washington D.C.: Northeast Modern Language Association.

Richardson, E. (2019, November 10). Black Thought and the United States’ Power in the World. States of Emergence. : America Studies Association.

Richardson, E. (2019, November 8). Going on the Market. States of Emergence. : American studies Association.

Richardson, E. (2018, November 18). Booker T. Washington's Emergent Imperial Imagination in the Demise of Reconstruction¿. States of Emergence. Atlanta, GA: American Studies Association.

Richardson, E. (2017, November 14). "Have you seen her, tell me, have you seen her”: Visibility and Nonrecognition of Black Female Excellence in American Imaginaries. Forty Years after Combahee: Feminist Scholars and Activists Engage the Movement for Black Lives. Baltimore, MD: National Women's Studies Association.

Richardson, E. (2017, November 9). “Things are so much better now:” The Failed and Potential Lessons of Lynching Play Revivals in Response to Black Lives Matter. Pedagogies of Dissent. Chicago, IL: American Studies Association.

Richardson, E. (2016, May 21). The Evil of the One Room Cabin: Black Clubwomen Apprehending the Problem of Black Female Sexuality in The Woman’s Era 1894-1897. African American Literature and Culture Society. Boston, MA: American Literary Association.

Richardson, E. (2015, June 27). Sociological Aesthetics in Harlem Renaissance Lynching Plays. Restaging the Harlem Renaissance. New York, NY: Heyman Center for the Humantities, Columbia University.

Reviews

Richardson, E. N. (1970,January 1). Class Interruptions: Inequality and Division in African Diasporic Women’s Fiction. Robin Brooks. The University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 238 pages. $95.00 hardback; $32.50 paper.. MELUS (The Society for the Study of Multi Ethnic Literature of the United States).

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