Enrico Bruno

Visiting Assistant Professor
302 Pardee Hall
(610) 330-3353
brunoe@lafayette.edu

Degrees

  • Ph.D., University of Iowa
  • B.A., The College of New Jersey

Research and Teaching Interests: African American literature; queer literature and history; postplantation studies; queer of color theory

Publications:
“’Anyone can Fly’: The Flying African Myth and the Afterlives of Slavery in Children’s Literature.” College Literature, forthcoming.

“Athletics, Accommodation, and the Labor Question in Ellison’s ‘Afternoon.’” Journal of Modern Literature 48.2, Winter 2025, pp. 1-19.

“The Mis-Education of Buster and Riley: Flight and Transgenerational Conflict in Ralph Ellison’s Short Fiction.” African American Review 54.3, Fall 2021, pp. 185-198.