Faculty
Badia Ahad
Title/s: Associate Professor
Specialty Area: 20th-century American and African-American literature, psychoanalytic theory, critical race studies
Office #: Crown Center 459
Phone: 82791
E-mail:
Degrees
B.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.A., Ph.D. (2004), University of Notre Dame
Research Interests
Contemporary American and African-American literature, history of psychoanalysis, and Diaspora Studies.
Selected Publications
Recent Publications:
"An(Other) Consciousness: The Legacy of Lemuel Haynes." Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas, May 1998, pp. 51-67.
"Ain't Gon' Lay My 'Ligion Down: African-American Religion in the South." Religion and Literature, vol. 29, no. 3, Autumn 1997, pp. 97-100.
Freud Upside Down: African American Literature and Psychoanalytic Culture (U of Illinois P, 2010).
Work-in-Progress:
As the result of new archival research, I am writing an article that examines African-American women’s relationship to psychoanalytic thought in the 1940s and 1950s. Drawing upon the imperatives of the mental hygiene movement, a mid-twentieth century program of social and psychical reform linking mental illness to moral decline, I am investigating African-American women’s participation within and responses to this movement within popular culture, specifically women’s magazines.
