Jalylah Burrell
Assistant Professor of African American Studies
Education
Rice University
Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
2020
DePaul University
Postdoctoral Fellow
African and Black Diaspora Department
2018
Yale University
Ph.D.
American Studies and African American Studies
2017
Accomplishments
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute: Hurston on the Horizon, University of Kansas
2021
Barnard Library Research Award Alternate, Barnard College
2020 - 2021
Timuel Black Visiting Research Fellowship in African American Studies, Vivian G. Harsh Society, Chicago Public Library
2019
Charles Atwater Fellowship, Yale University
2015
Rose Library Short-Term Visiting Research Fellowship, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University
2020 - 2021
Visiting Research Fellowship, Black Film Center/Archive, Indiana University Bloomington
2019
Postdoctoral Fellowship James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Gender, Emory University
2018 - 2019 (declined)
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Affiliations
- American Humor Studies Association : Member
- American Studies Association : Member
- College Language Association : Member
- National Women’s Studies Association : Member
Articles
Introduction: ‘The Masters Tools’
Theater Magazine: Yale’s Journal of Criticism, Plays, & Reportage2021 (Forthcoming)
We Always Somebody Else’: Inherited Roles and Innovative Strategies in Black Women’s Stand-up Comedy
Women’s Studies Quarterly2020
An Inappropriate Laugh’: Ntozake Shange’s Uses of Humor
CLA Journal2020
