Gretchen Gerzina Explained

Birth Place:Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
Other Names:Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
Occupation:Historian, author, academic
Spouse:Anthony Gerzina
Children:2
Notable Works:Black England: Life Before Emancipation

Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina (born 1950) is an American author and academic who has written mostly historically-grounded biographical studies. She has written about Black British history.[1] [2] Her academic posts have included being the Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor of Biography at Dartmouth College, working as a professor at Vassar College, being a professor and a director of Africana Studies at Barnard College, and as of April 2019 being the Dean of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Commonwealth Honors College.[3] Gerzina was the host of WAMC's nationally-syndicated radio program The Book Show for fourteen years, where she interviewed authors.[4]

In the UK, she presented a 10-part documentary for BBC Radio 4 called Britain's Black Past,[5] which she subsequently adapted into a book.[6] [7]

Personal life

She was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and moved to Springfield, Massachusetts, just before she was five years old. She is married to Anthony Gerzina and they have two sons.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Sudan, R. . Fair Exotics: Xenophobic Subjects in English Literature, 172-185 . University of Pennsylvania Press, Incorporated . New Cultural Studies . 2013 . 978-0-8122-0376-9 . 2024-06-21 . 104.
  2. Web site: Private Passions: Gretchen Gerzina . BBC Media Centre . 21 June 2024 . 4 October 2020.
  3. Web site: About Us Dean Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20190328120504/https://www.honors.umass.edu/dean-gretchen-holbrook-gerzina. University of Massachusetts Amherst. Commonwealth Honors College. March 28, 2019.
  4. Web site: About Gretchen Gerzina. gretchengerzina.com. June 12, 2023.
  5. Web site: Britain's Black Britain. BBC Radio 4. October 2016. June 12, 2023.
  6. Book: Gerzina, Gretchen. Britain's Black Past. Liverpool University Press. March 11, 2020. 978-1789621600.
  7. Adi . Hakim . Reviewed Work: Britain's Black Past by Gretchen H. Gerzina . New West Indian Guide . 2022 . 96 . 1/2 . 183–184 . 10.1163/22134360-09601002 . 27130500 . 21 June 2024. free .
  8. The Times Literary Supplement. Black England - Life before emancipation. P.. Rogers. 8. 1996.
  9. African American Review. Black London: Life before Emancipation. A. G.. Barthelemy. 31. 508. 1997. 10.2307/3042578 . 3042578 .
  10. The New York Times Book Review. Black London: Life Before Emancipation. R.. Porter. 30. 1995.
  11. Web site: Review Sugar and spice. The Guardian. Natasha. Walter. Natasha Walter. May 8, 2004. June 12, 2023.
  12. Children's Literature Association Quarterly. Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Unexpected Life of the Author of The Secret Garden (review). C.. Mills. 29. 270–272. 2004.

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