Erica Fretwell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1134594 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erica Fretwell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erica |
| FAMILY NAME | Fretwell |
| SIGNATURE | FRETWELL E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-8627-2729 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sleeping in the wake
This essay theorizes ‘sleeping in the wake' as a counterintuitive yet vital Black feminist aesthetic tradition that centers nonconsciousness – somnolence, hypersomnia, and blackouts – as a strategy of political refusal in slavery's afterlife. Grounded in the legacy of Harriet Tubman, whose traumatic brain injury and subsequent sleep affliction are celebrated by contemporary Black feminists as a vital component of her political activism, this essa…
“Feeling and Knowing”
Erica Fretwell is Associate Professor of English at the University at Albany, SUNY. Her research interests and teaching areas include nineteenth- and early twentieth-century US literature, affect theory, feminist science studies, and critical phenomenology. She is the author of Sensory Experiments: Race, Psychophysics, and the Aesthetics of Feeling (Duke, 2020). She is currently developing a project on anaesthetics and the art of “slight living,”…
Redistributions of the Sensible
avia Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy, touch, chemosensation, and sensitivity to DNA itself offer a basis for building kinship relations that stretch across both species and interplanetar y boundaries.In Dawn (1987), for instance, surviving a planetary apocalypse and centuries of racial capitalist violence and war making requires the reeducation of the senses.When she wakes up on a spaceship after nuclear war has made most of Earth uninhabitable, the…
The Portrait's Subject
June 21 2021 The Portrait's Subject: Inventing Inner Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States The Portrait's Subject: Inventing Inner Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States. Erica Fretwell Erica Fretwell Erica Fretwell is assistant professor of English at the University at Albany, SUNY. She is the author ofSensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling(2020), and currently is working on two projects: one on pren…
Introduction
IntroductionCommon Senses and Critical Sensibilities Erica Fretwell (bio) The senses are sparking interest in the humanities. Long the purview of neurology, they now circulate among history, media and communications, philosophy, performance studies, and other fields. For those in literary studies, the current move might seem obvious—making claims in the name of the aesthetic, a word that has its etymological origins in Greek, meaning "of or relat…
Redistributions of the Sensible
avia Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy, touch, chemosensation, and sensitivity to DNA itself offer a basis for building kinship relations that stretch across both species and interplanetar y boundaries.In Dawn (1987), for instance, surviving a planetary apocalypse and centuries of racial capitalist violence and war making requires the reeducation of the senses.When she wakes up on a spaceship after nuclear war has made most of Earth uninhabitable, the…
Introduction
IntroductionCommon Senses and Critical Sensibilities Erica Fretwell (bio) The senses are sparking interest in the humanities. Long the purview of neurology, they now circulate among history, media and communications, philosophy, performance studies, and other fields. For those in literary studies, the current move might seem obvious—making claims in the name of the aesthetic, a word that has its etymological origins in Greek, meaning "of or relat…
Introduction
IntroductionCommon Senses and Critical Sensibilities Erica Fretwell (bio) The senses are sparking interest in the humanities. Long the purview of neurology, they now circulate among history, media and communications, philosophy, performance studies, and other fields. For those in literary studies, the current move might seem obvious—making claims in the name of the aesthetic, a word that has its etymological origins in Greek, meaning "of or relat…
The Portrait's Subject
June 21 2021 The Portrait's Subject: Inventing Inner Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States The Portrait's Subject: Inventing Inner Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States. Erica Fretwell Erica Fretwell Erica Fretwell is assistant professor of English at the University at Albany, SUNY. She is the author ofSensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling(2020), and currently is working on two projects: one on pren…
“Feeling and Knowing”
Erica Fretwell is Associate Professor of English at the University at Albany, SUNY. Her research interests and teaching areas include nineteenth- and early twentieth-century US literature, affect theory, feminist science studies, and critical phenomenology. She is the author of Sensory Experiments: Race, Psychophysics, and the Aesthetics of Feeling (Duke, 2020). She is currently developing a project on anaesthetics and the art of “slight living,”…
Redistributions of the Sensible
avia Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy, touch, chemosensation, and sensitivity to DNA itself offer a basis for building kinship relations that stretch across both species and interplanetar y boundaries.In Dawn (1987), for instance, surviving a planetary apocalypse and centuries of racial capitalist violence and war making requires the reeducation of the senses.When she wakes up on a spaceship after nuclear war has made most of Earth uninhabitable, the…
Sleeping in the wake
This essay theorizes ‘sleeping in the wake' as a counterintuitive yet vital Black feminist aesthetic tradition that centers nonconsciousness – somnolence, hypersomnia, and blackouts – as a strategy of political refusal in slavery's afterlife. Grounded in the legacy of Harriet Tubman, whose traumatic brain injury and subsequent sleep affliction are celebrated by contemporary Black feminists as a vital component of her political activism, this essa…
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