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Department of English
513 Hill Hall
(973) 353-5279 X 513
bfoley29@aol.com
http://english-newark.rutgers.edu/
Professor Foley has pursued interests in Marxist theory, U.S. literary radicalism, and African-American literature. In Telling the Truth: The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction (Cornell, 1986) she explores prose genres that mix fact and fiction from the standpoint of historical materialism. Her Radical Representations: Politics and Form in U.S. Proletarian Fiction, 1929-1941 (Duke 1993) contains an analysis of 1930s U.S. literary radicalism. In Spectres of 1919: Class and Nation in the Making of the New Negro (Illinois 2003), Foley examines the radical origins of the New Negro Renaissance. She has published widely on politics and the academy.
Foley is currently working on a book about Ralph Ellison in relation to the Cold War.
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