Mullen, Harryette R.
Kaplan 209
Tel: 310.825.7553 / Fax: 310.267.4339 / E-mail
Education
Ph.D., Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, 1990.
Interests
African-American Literature; Poetry; American Literature.
Additional Information
Harryette Mullen’s poetry collection Recyclopedia (Graywolf 2006) won a PEN Beyond Margins Award in 2007. Her previous book, Sleeping with the Dictionary (University of California, 2002) was a finalist for a National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In 2005 she was awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. She received a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2004.
Interest Areas
• Creative Writing
• African American Literature & Culture / Black Diaspora Studies