SU's Logan Earns Mellon Scholars Postdoctoral Fellowship

SALISBURY, MD---Dr. April Logan, Salisbury University associate professor of English, has won significant professional development support as a recipient of a prestigious Mellon Scholars Postdoctoral Fellowship through The Library Company of Philadelphia’s Program in African American History.

The highly competitive award includes a $50,000 stipend for the academic year, with Logan in residence at the Library Company for the duration of the fellowship.

Logan will conduct research for her book, Staging Mother Tongues: Black Women Writers’ Politics of Performance, 1845-1900, which explores quotidian and professional performances (such as drama lectures, and poetry readings) as a political strategy within and enacted by 19th- and early 20th-century texts by African American women. It examines the lives and works of Frances Harper, Harriet Wilson, Harriet Jacobs and Pauline Hopkins.  

“Given the global ubiquity of African American artists, it is critical to recover Black women writers’ historic lessons about cultural practice as a mode of political representation,” said Logan.

The Mellon Scholars Research Fellowship Program promotes research in the collections of the library company and enhances the production of scholarly work in African American history of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.

For more information call 410-543-6030 or visit the SU website at www.salisbury.edu.