Dr. Danielle Morgan: Maybe I Can Do It Too

Dr. Danielle Morgan is an assistant professor in the Department
of English at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California
who specializes in African American literature and culture in the
20th and 21st centuries. She  is interested in the ways that
literature, popular culture, and humor shape identity formation.
In particular, her research and teaching reflect her interests in
African American satire and comedy, literature and the arts as
activism, and the continuing influence of history on contemporary
articulations of Black selfhood. She has written a variety of
both scholarly and popular articles and has been interviewed on
topics as varied as Black Lives Matter, the dangers of the
“Karen” figure, race and sexuality on the Broadway stage, and
Beyoncé. Her book, Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American
Satire in the Twenty-First Century, is forthcoming Fall 2020 with
University of Illinois Press as a part of the New Black Studies
Series and addresses the contemporary role of African American
satire as a critical realm for social justice.


In this conversation, Dr. Danielle Morgan elaborates on the
significance of English literature in her adolescence, her
introduction to African American satire, the writing and
publishing of her upcoming and first book Laughing to Keep from
Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century, the
memory of her late Uncle Kevin, her experience as the Frank
Sinatra Faculty Fellow with the Center for the Arts and
Humanities, and the harassment she was subjected to by SCU Campus
Safety on Aug 22nd.





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