Nicholas Rinehart
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English

His research focuses on African American, African diasporic, and American multi-ethnic literature across all periods. His dissertation research provides an account of New World slave testimony that challenges scholarly preoccupation with the American slave narrative tradition, asking how various genres of slave testimony produced in the Americas, Europe, and Africa in the 17th through 20th centuries have remained largely illegible to literary criticism and thus marginal to African diasporic literary history.