Alexander Dumas J. Brickler IV

Alexander D Brickler

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
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850-599-3307
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Office Hours

Tucker Hall, Rm. #425

Monday/Wednesday/Friday • 1:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m.
Tuesday/Thursday 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m.

Current Semester Schedule

ENC 1102 Freshman Communicative Skills II • Wed. Fri. — 10:10 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
ENC 1102 Freshman Communicative Skills II • Wed. Fri. — 11:15 a.m.–12:05 p.m.
LIT 4083 Contemporary Literature • Wed. Fri. — 12:20 p.m.–1:10 p.m.


About Me


Alexander Dumas J. Brickler IV is an assistant professor in the Department of English and Modern Languages at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida.  He received his Ph.D. in African American Literature from Florida State University, where his dissertation won the English Department’s 2018 J. Russell Reaver Award for Outstanding Dissertation in American Literature or Folklore. His work appears in the Association for the Study of African American Life and History’s Journal, Fire!!!, and in the 2019 edited collection of essays, Black Bodies and Transhuman Realities: Scientifically Modifying the Black Body in Posthuman Literature and Culture from Lexington Books.


Areas of Interest


  • World Literature
  • Afrofuturism & Black Science Fiction
  • Literature of the African Diaspora
  • Anime
  • Japanese Cinema
  • Japanese Literature
  • Popular Culture

Education


 
  • Florida State University • 2018
    Ph.D. in English
  • Florida A&M University • 2013
    M.A.S.S. in History
  • University of Minnesota • 2012
    M.A. in Asian Languages and Literatures
  • Morehouse College • 2007
    B.S. in History

Work History


  • Assistant Professor, Department of English and Modern Languages Present
    Florida A&M University
  • Instructor, Department of English 2018-2020
    Southeastern Louisiana University

Academic Accomplishments


  • “Soul in the Shell: Steven Barnes’s Aubry Knight Trilogy, Black Cyborgs, and Cyberpunk Investigations of Technological Black Bodies,” in Black Bodies and Transhuman Realities: Scientifically Modifying the Black Body in Posthuman Literature and Culture (Lexington Books), 2019.
  • “Black Mecha is Built for This: Black Masculine Identity in Firedance and Afro Samurai,” in TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies (Vol. 39, Issue 2), 2018.

  • “Trans-Pacific Crossroads: Reading the Blues as Black American Folkway in Hiramoto Akira’s Manga, Me and the Devil Blues,” in Fire!!! (Vol. 4, No. 2), 2015

  • TEDxFSU 2018 Speakers Series – Speaker (2018)


Awards


  • J. Russell Reaver Award for Outstanding Dissertation in American Literature or Folklore, English Department, Florida State University • 2018

Courses Taught At FAMU


  • ENC 1101 – Freshman Communicative Skills I

  • ENC 1102 – Freshman Communicative Skills II

  • LIT 2110 – Intro to Literature

  • LIT 3196 – African Caribbean Literature

  • LIT 3353 – Intro to African Literature

  • LIT 4083 – Contemporary Literature