Jalylah Burrell
Assistant Professor of African American Studies | Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
Education (3)
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 (7)
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)
Affiliations (4)
- American Humor Studies Association : Member
- American Studies Association : Member
- College Language Association : Member
- National Women’s Studies Association : Member
Articles (3)
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
