From the Deluge: Traumatic Iconography and Emergent Visions of Nation in Katrina's Wake Available to Purchase

Maurice E. Stevens is a member of the Department of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University, having previously taught in Literature and Ethnic Studies at the University of California at San Diego. Dr. Stevens's research interests include the formation of American identities in and through visual culture and performance; critical psychoanalytic theory; historical memory in relation to “trauma theory”; critical race theory; popular cultural performance; and American, ethnic, gender and cultural studies. His first book is titled Troubling Beginnings: Trans(per)forming African-American History and Identity. He is currently working on a second book called From the Past Imperfect: Towards a Critical Trauma Theory.