Dr. Tracy L. Vaughn
Distinguished Senior Lecturer Assistant Director of Graduate Studies Address: African American Studies Department 2-320 Kresge Hall 1880 S. Campus Dr. Evanston, IL 60208-2209 Email: t-vaughn@northwestern.edu

Courses:

AFAM 210-2: Survey of African American Literature (Winter)

AFAM 390: African American Autobiography (Winter)

AFAM 378: The Harlem Renaissance (Spring)

AFAM 379: Black Women Writers (Spring)

Degree:

Ph. D., English, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Current Research:

African American Quilting; Quilting and African American women writers; The phenomenon of passing and the performance of identity in 20th-century African American literature.

Recent Awards:

Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll Award, Northwestern University, 2007

Teaching Award: Outstanding Performance in the Classroom, Department of African American Studies, Northwestern University, 2006

Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll Award, Northwestern University, 2006

Recent Publications/Exhibitions:

Black Threads Collective: Quilt Explosion!
Skokie Public Library (February 2-March 5, 2008)

Utilitarian Beauty: Reconstructing An African American Tradition
Dittmar Memorial Gallery
Northwestern University (January 8-February 10, 2008)

Artist Behind the Desk Art Exhibition
Women's Center
Northwestern University (May 2007)

Black Threads Collective: Quilt Explosion!
Carter G. Woodson Regional Public Library
(September 1-December 31, 2006)

"Stitched in Tradition: The Trope of Quilting in the Novels of Toni Morrison." (article forthcoming)