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Thursday, April 28, 2016

Congratulations Timothy Marshall Griffiths

Timothy M. Griffiths F'16

Timothy M. Griffiths
Doctoral CandidateEnglish
City University of New York, The Graduate Center
last updated: 04/20/16
Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships 2016
Doctoral Candidate
Department: English
City University of New York, The Graduate Center
Bricolage Propriety: The Queer Practice of Black Uplift, 1890-1905

This project situates post-Reconstruction black American culture in the genealogy of queer American studies. Rather than using queer theory as a way to understand black uplift, Bricolage Propriety allows late-nineteenth-century black culture to inform queer theory, which is typically centered on white gay male culture. Focused on archival documents and novels by Charles W. Chesnutt, Pauline E. Hopkins, Sutton Griggs, Thomas Nelson Page, William Hannibal Thomas, and Thomas Dixon, Jr., this project illuminates inventions of and challenges to black sexual propriety in late-nineteenth-century culture. Moreover, it argues that this archive not only calls into question the purity and novelty of queer antinormativity in the present, but further illustrates the constitutive relationship between performances of blackness and American theories of sexual propriety throughout US history.

 In my humble way I will try and describe what this means to me. 
 A relationship with the English language is not easy to live with. The understanding that the context of  description   has multiple definitions. Giving us understanding helps define the conditions of the discrimination.  Leading us to a better realization, through the complex tuning of language, is what his (Tim) minds eye is all about. 
Congratulations on the fellowship award.
Love, mom

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