Marina Bilbija
Assistant Professor of English
English Department Room 205, 285 Court Street860-685-2017
Assistant Professor, African American Studies
English Department Room 205, 285 Court Street860-685-2017
BA University of Sarajevo
MA University of Pennsylvania
PHD University of Pennsylvania
Marina Bilbija
In her writing and teaching alike, Marina Bilbija analyzes the role of print culture, more specifically, magazines and newspapers, in the making of black internationalist publics. Her work thus bridges the concerns of African American and Global Anglophone literary studies with those of book history. Bilbija’s current book manuscript, Worlds of Color: Black Print Networks and the Making of the Anglophone World shows how a vibrant culture of citation, advertising, and reprinting between black and anti-racist editors in the UK, US, and Nigeria produced a new black literary and political sphere that she refers to as “the Black Anglosphere.” Her other scholarly interests include interdisciplinarity in the black intellectual tradition (especially in the work of W.E.B. Du Bois), and comparative studies of race and ethnicity. Her work has appeared in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and Oxford Bibliographies, the South Atlantic Review, and Modern Fiction Studies.
Academic Affiliations
Office Hours
Fall 2018
MW: 10AM-12:00 PM
Courses
Fall 2024
CHUM 392 - 01
The Library
Spring 2025
ENGL 201B - 01
Ways of Reading: Unreliability
ENGL 262 - 01
Beyond the Talking Book