Hades Chavanne
Teaching Scholar, English
- Office
- 356 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556-5639 - hchavann@nd.edu
Areas of study
- African and African American
- American
- Environmental
- Gender and Sexuality
- Postcolonial/Global
- Writing and education
Research and teaching interests
Hades’s primary research centers on the convergence of eroticism, blackness, and the natural world within American literary traditions and culture.
Representative publications
"unruly, full of desire, unsettling": Erotic forms of American Literature. 2023. University of Notre Dame, Ph.D. dissertation.
"The Unexamined Story: White Feminism, Appropriation, and Women of Color in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening,” Undergraduate Thesis, CSU Channel Islands
“Living Without Borders: The Mode of Nepantla in Healing the Colonized Psyche Through Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderlands/la Frontera and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony,” SURF Program, Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research
“The Transgression of Slavery’s Boundaries,” UC Berkeley Undergraduate Comparative Literature Symposium