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Dana Horton
Dr Dana Horton is an associate professor of English and race, ethnic, gender and sexuality studies at St. Olaf College. She was previously an assistant professor of English at Mercy University. Her current research project is an autoethnography that examines the occult and intersectional spirituality in hip hop culture. She recently published Gender, Genre, and Race in Post-Neo-Slave Narratives (Lexington Books, 2022), which analyses representations of Black and white women slave-owners in American cultural productions. Her work appears in Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900–Present), Lateral: The Journal of the Cultural Studies Association, and The Journal of Hip Hop Studies, where she is also an associate editor. Dr Horton’s areas of specialization are African American literature, Black feminist theory, hip hop studies, Black popular culture, slave narratives, Black Atlantic studies and gender and sexuality studies.
Contact: St. Olaf College, 1520 Saint Olaf Avenue, Tomson Hall 347, Northfield, MN 55057, USA.