Alpen Razi
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. English
Pronouns: he/him/his
Areas of Interest
- Book History and Print Culture
- African American Studies
- The Black Atlantic
- Queer Ethnic Studies
Contact Information
- Office: Bldg. 38, Rm. 106
- Phone: 805-756-1782
- Email: razi@calpoly.edu
Selected Publications
Razi, Alpen. “Coloured Citizens of the World: The Networks of Empire Loyalism in Emancipation-Era Jamaica and the Rise of the Transnational Black Press.” American Periodicals 23.2 (2013): 105-124.
Razi, Alpen. “Captive Petitions: The Function of Slave Dialect in the Fictional and Transcriptional Texts of Susanna Strickland Moodie.” English Languages: History, Culture, Diaspora 3 (2012): 17 pp.
Awards
Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activities Grant. California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, California Award Amount: $14,477
2017 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California Award Amount: $3,000
2014 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California Award Amount: $6,000
2014 Clark Library Predoctoral Fellowship. UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies University of California Los Angeles, California Award Amount: $2,500
2014 Dissertation Completion Award. Department of English University of Toronto, Canada Award Amount: $12,000
2013 Paul W. McQuillen Memorial Fellowship. John Carter Brown Library Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Award Amount: $4,200
2013 School of Graduate Studies Research Grant. University of Toronto, Canada Award Amount: CA$2,100
2012 Chawton House Library Visiting Fellowship. Chawton House Library, Hampshire, U.K. Award Amount: GBP 1,400
2012 Legacy Short-Term Visiting Research Fellowship American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA Award Amount: $1,850