Dennis R CHILDS - Ph.D. (UC Berkeley) Primary Office: LIT 426 Primary Phone: (858) 534-2393 Winter 2010 Office Hours : TTh 2-3 , By appt. Winter 2010 Teaching Schedule: Course: LTEN 183 Time: TuTh 1100-1220 Location: PCYNH 120 (www) Course: LTEN 185 Time: TuTh 1530-1650 Location: CSB 4 (www) Email: drchilds@ucsd.edu

Assistant Professor - African American Literature Affiliated Faculty for Department of Ethnic Studies African American literature and culture; Black literary modernism Professor Childs received his Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley and his M.A. in African American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. His current book manuscript offers a cultural history of racial capitalist incarceration in the U.S. from the late nineteenth century through the prison industrial complex. He has received research fellowships from numerous sources including the Hellman Fund, the University of California President’s Postdoctoral Program, and the Ford Foundation. His research and teaching areas include African American literature and blues culture, slavery, and prison studies. In 2009, he received the Outstanding Faculty Award from UCSD’s Black Student Union. Articles: "'You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet': Beloved, the American Chain Gang, and the Middle Passage Remix." American Quarterly Vol. 61.2 (June 2009):271-298. "Angola, Convict Leasing, and the Annulment of Freedom." Violence and the Body: Race, Gender, and the State. Arturo Aldama, ed. Bloomington: Indiana, 2003.