Anthony Ballas

Anthony Ballas is a PhD student in the Program in Literature. His primary research interests include Caribbean and Atlantic literatures of the Americas, Haitian Studies, historiography, and internationalism in the long nineteenth century (1791-1955). He also researches Jazz, Hip Hop, poetics, Cold War-era literature and film, labor history, and the postal service. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Caribbean Quarterly, Revue d'Histoire Haitienne, Middle West Review, Canadian Review of American Studies, J19: The Journal of Nineteenth Century Americanists, Peace, land, & Bread, 3:AM Magazine, Black Agenda Report, Scalawag Magazine, and elsewhere. His full list of publications can be found here: https://duke.academia.edu/AnthonyBallas/CurriculumVitae.

Ballas is the managing editor of Portolan, the internationalist blog associate with South Atlantic Quarterly. He is also the Host of the De Facto Podcast and Co-Host of the Cold War Cinema Podcast.

PhD Duke University, Program in Literature (in progress)

MA University of Colorado Denver, English Rhetoric & Composition

BA Summa Cum Laude, University of Colorado Denver, English Literature & Film

BA Magna Cum Laude, University of Colorado Denver, Philosophy