Burrell, Jalylah
Assistant Professor
Education
Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 2017
Bio
Jalylah Burrell is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies at San José State University. She holds a PhD in American Studies and African American Studies from
Yale University and her scholarship was previously supported by postdoctoral
fellowships at DePaul University’s African and Black Diaspora Department and Rice
University’s Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Her research and
teaching are focused on African Diasporic literature and popular culture and enhanced
by experience as a multiplatform storyteller—pop culture critic, digital producer,
oral historian, and deejay. Her current book project is tentatively titled “Capacity
for Laughter: Black Women and the American Comedic Tradition.”
Links
- "We Always Somebody Else": Inherited Roles and Innovative Strategies in Black Women's Stand-Up Comedy, WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly 48, no. 1 (2020) 182-198 doi: 10.1353/wsq.2020.0004
- "An Inappropriate Laugh": Ntozake Shange's Uses of Humor, CLA Journal 62, no. 1 (2019): 74-85 doi: 10.34042/claj.62.1.0074