Micheal Rumore

Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow

Member Of:
  • School of Literature, Media, and Communication
Email Address: mrumore3@gatech.edu

Overview

Personal Pronouns:
he/him/his

Micheal Rumore is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication. He received his PhD in English from the Graduate Center, CUNY in 2021.  His research interests include Indian Ocean studies, African diaspora studies, postcoloniality, and critical pedagogy. Currently, he is working on book project that explores the marginalization of the African diaspora in narratives of Indian Ocean cosmopolitanism. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in History of the Present, Oil Fictions: World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphere, Social Text Online, and Studies in the Fantastic. 

Education:
  • PhD in English, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
  • MPhil in English, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
  • BA in English and Writing, University of Tampa
Areas of
Expertise:
  • African Diaspora Studies
  • Afro-Asian Studies
  • Postcolonial Studies

Interests

Research Fields:
  • Literary and Cultural Studies
  • Media Studies
Issues:
  • African Studies
  • Diaspora Studies
  • Literary Theory
  • Migration
  • Modernity
  • Post-Colonialism
  • World Literature

Courses

  • ENGL-1102: English Composition II

Publications

Books