LaRose T. Parris: Publications and Honors
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Being Apart: Theoretical and Existential
Resistance in Africana Literature.
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015. Print.
Edited Volumes
Global City Review:
Courting Danger. Eds. LaRose T.
Parris, Jimin Han, Dianne
Estigarribia. New York: Global City
Press, 1998. Print.
Refereed Journal Articles
“Frantz Fanon:
Existentialist, Dialectician, and Revolutionary.” Journal of Pan African
Studies. 4.7 (2011): 4-23. Web.
“Territories, a novel excerpt.” Callaloo:
A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters.
Ed. Charles H. Rowell. 31.3 (2008): 818-839. Print.
“Being and Totality: Ontology and Universality in Bessie
Head’s A Question of Power.”
Stirrings
Still: The Journal of Existential
Literature. 2.1 (2005): 4-22. http://stirrings-still.org.
Web.
Encyclopedia Entries
“Pele.” Encyclopedia
of African-American Culture and History: The Black Experience in
the
Americas. Ed. Colin Palmer. Vol.4.
Detroit: Macmillan Reference. 2nd ed. 2006. 1744-47. Print.
“Sports.” Encyclopedia
of African-American Culture and History: The Black Experience
in
the Americas. Ed. Colin Palmer. Vol.
5. Detroit: Macmillan Reference. 2nd ed. 2006. 2136-45. Print.
“U.S. Folk Heroes and
Characters.” Encyclopedia of
African-American Culture and
History:
The Black Experience in the Americas. Ed. Colin Palmer. Vol. 2. Detroit: Macmillan Reference. 2nd
ed. 2006. 829-33. Print.
“Ella Baker.” The
Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives. Ed. Kenneth T. Jackson.
Vol. 2. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons Reference Books,
1999. 55-57. Print
AWARDS AND HONORS
2016 – 2017 Nicolás Guillén Award for Outstanding Book in Philosophical Literature, Caribbean Philosophical
Association, University of Connecticut, Storrs
2008 – 2009 Melvin Dixon Prize
for Best Dissertation in African American Studies,
Ph.D. Program in English, CUNY
Graduate Center, New York
2006 – 2007 Millennium
Dissertation Prize, Ph.D. Program in English, CUNY
Graduate Center,
New York
2001 Semi-finalist
– Bellwether Prize for Literature, New York