Demetrius Tucker, Ph.D.
Reynolds Hall 101
By appointment
African American Literature, American Literature, Literatures of the African Diaspora, covenantal approaches to American Literature, Religion and Literature.
Dr. Tucker鈥檚 research examines the dominance of covenantal language among Black writers when reconstructing cultural identity, organizing for political protest, vindicating the African past, and reimagining the rise and fall of empires in the early Black literary aesthetic. His research engages nineteenth century Black writers' negotiation of an unstable covenant discourse rooted in distinct yet complementary visions of racial activism within Northern and Southern Black Protestantism. More specifically, his work explores the encounter between the embodied liturgies of Southern Black Protestantism oriented in memories of an African past and the modern performing spectacle of Northern Black Protestantism oriented in dreams of assimilation as a dialectical relationship harnessed for race progress in the early Black literary aesthetic.
Dr. Tucker holds a Ph.D. in Literary Studies and a certificate in Africana Studies from Georgia State University. He specializes in nineteenth-century African American Literature and utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to studies of early African American Literature with particular emphasis on Black Protestantism, covenantalism, and diasporic heritage in these works. Dr. Tucker has taught African American Literature and English Composition courses at Georgia State University. While teaching, he founded and served as co-advisor for The Baldwin Society: A Black Literary Club at GSU.