Teaching & More

Osbey's research and teaching focus on narrative language, voice, and placement;

history of poetry of the Americas of precolonial and colonial eras;

narrative and material texts of culture;

and the place of New Orleans in Atlantic and inter-American spheres.

Among her signature courses are those listed below.

Course links automatically redirect to this page when seminars are not in session.

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Individual course websites include:

required reading/viewing/listening;

research & writing guidelines;

reference & resource links;

and a variety of useful information & materials.

Modernist Africana Poetry of the Americas

[MAPA]

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Modernist Africana Poetry of the Americas [MAPA] examines the origins of Modernism among Africana authors of the Americas (New World), and treats poetry, poetics and poetry movements of Brazil and Latin America, the Caribbean and United States from the 18th through the first half of the 20th century.

The seminar developed from and is part of Osbey's larger *MAPA in Translation project.

MAPA course website includes:

_Paper requirements & guidelines

_Chronology/s of movements, authors, & works

_Translations & translation resources

_Literary reference and resource links and materials,

& more.

Modernist Africana Poetry of the Americas and MAPA

*MAPA in Translation is a long-term study, bringing together works of Africana poets from across the Americas.

Translated and edited

by Brenda Marie Osbey.

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Modernist Africana Poetry of the Americas, MAPA, &

History, Archives, & Narrative Poetry

[HANP 1, 2]

Black New Orleans Research Seminar

[BlackNOLA]

Black New Orleans Research Seminar [BlackNOLA]

examines the development of a unique African/American cultural and political identity in New Orleans, beginning with the founding of the city in 1718.

Seminar members conduct individual guided research projects and make use of archival materials and library special collections.

Storyville, Faubourg Tremé aerial view.

The seminar begins with the development of

Faubourg Tremé, the oldest free Black community in

the United States.

BlackNOLA course website includes:

_Paper & Presentation Requirements

_Archival/Special Collections Resources

_BlackNOLA Chronology

_Selections from: "Faubourg Tremé: Community in Transition"

by Brenda Marie Osbey

_Additional resources.

Black New Orleans Seminar,

Black New Orleans Research Seminar,

Black New Orleans Archival Research Seminar,

& Black NOLA, including titles and terminology, in all formats,

New Orleans Slave Mart.

1967

[67RAS]

1967 Research-Arts Seminar [67RAS] examines the crucial role of African American resistance, arts, and activism in changing the political and cultural landscape of the United States in that pivotal year.

At page top: New Orleans skyline, tombs of St. Louis Cemetery #1 in foreground.

Brenda Marie Osbey

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