Ronnel Berry

I'm a humanist. I believe that all human life has equal value. I work towards creating a more equitable future by transmitting the philosophies of Black writers and artists.

My research interests include 20th-21 century African American and African Diaspora Literatures, LGBTQ+ Literatures, African American Intellectual History, Intellectual History of the African Diaspora, Transatlanticism and Race Studies.

• Berry, Ronnel Keith. "A Ritual Sacrifice: The Black Gaze on Whiteness in Gore Vidal’s The City and the Pillar (1948)" Calling It by Its Name: Analyses of White U.S. Literature, Accepted.
• Berry, Ronnel Keith. "Reimagining a Community: White Spectrality in James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain (1956)," The Routledge Companion to James Baldwin, in progress.
• Berry, Ronnel Keith and Michael Thomas. 2023. “Reading the Sensual in James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room.” Transatlantica, vol. 2.
  
• Berry, Ronnel Keith. 2023. “Seminar Review: ‘Transatlantic Black Queer Networks,’ May 25th, 2022.” Quaderna, vol. 6.
• Berry, Ronnel. 2018. “Racial Intelligibility in James Arthur Baldwin's Another Country.” La Revue Française des Etudes Américaines, vol. 157, no. 4, p. 135-145.