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John Ernest
Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of American Literature Ph.D. University of Virginia Office: 213 Colson Hall Tel: 293-9714 Fax: 293-5380 Email: john.ernest@mail.wvu.edu |
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Specializations
Nineteenth-century African American Studies
Race Theory
Historiography
Pedagogy
John Ernest is the author of various publications on nineteenth-century African American and white American literature, and on contemporary poet William Bronk. In addition to several editions of nineteenth-century African American texts, he has published two books, Resistance and Reformation in Nineteenth-Century African-American Literature: Brown, Wilson, Jacobs, Delany, Douglass, and Harper (University Press of Mississippi, 1995) and Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861 (The University of North Carolina Press, 2004). Before arriving at WVU in 2005, he taught for twelve years at the University of New Hampshire (UNH), where he served as Director of Undergraduate Composition, Co-Director of the Discovery Program, and Director of African American Studies. At UNH, he received the Outstanding Assistant Professor Award (1997), the UNH Diversity Support Coalition’s Positive Change Award (1998), the Jean Brierley Award for Excellence in Teaching (2003-2004), and the New Hampshire Excellence in Education Award for Higher Education (2004). His current work focuses on race theory, constructions of American literary history, and African American historical writing from 1861-1900.