Myisha Priest
Associate Professor
mtp5@nyu.edu
(212) 998-7321
402 - 1 Wash Pl
Office Hours
Monday BY APPT
Tuesday BY APPT
Wednesday BY APPT
Thursday BY APPT
Friday BY APPT
B.A., English, University of California, Berkeley, 1993
M.A., African American Studies, Cornell University, 1995
Ph.D., English, University of California, Berkeley, 2005
Myisha Priest's teaching and research focus on African American literature and material culture. She has published articles mining this fruitful intersection in The Crisis, Meridians, and Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination. She is currently completing a book manuscript, The Children's Miracle: The Impact of Children's Literature on African-American Writing, an interdisciplinary project that considers how figures of children and children's literature impact African American writing. Her most recent publication, "The Nightmare is Not Cured," appeared in the spring 2010 issue of American Quarterly. In the fall of 2017, she organized the conference Scenes at 20: Inspirations, Riffs, Reverberations, which was held at Columbia University in New York, New York. Priest has been the recipient of a 2009-2010 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Fellowship, a Paul Cuffe Memorial Fellowship, a 2015-2016 NYU Humanities Initiative Faculty Fellowship, and a 2018-2019 Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Teaching and Research Interests
African American literature and culture; African American history; American literature; multicultural women's literature and culture; children's literature
