P. Gabrielle Foreman
Pier Gabrielle Foreman is an American literary historian. As of 2025, she is the Paterno Family Professor of American Literature and Professor of African American Studies and History at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research has focused on "race, reform and resistance" in the 19th-century United States.
Foreman was a 2022 MacArthur Fellow.
Education and career
Foreman attended Amherst College and obtained her PhD in Ethnic Studies in 1992 from the University of California, Berkeley.Foreman taught at Wayne State University from 1992 to 1994, and at Occidental College from 1994 to 2010. She was the Ned B. Allen chair in English at the University of Delaware from 2010 to 2019. At the University of Delaware, Foreman was a founding faculty director of the Colored Conventions Project.
In 2022, Foreman was recognized as a MacArthur Fellow for "catalyzing inquiry into historic nineteenth-century collective Black organizing efforts through initiatives such as the Colored Conventions Project".
At the Pennsylvania State University, Foreman was a co-founder of the Center for Black Digital Research, also called #DigBlk. In 2024, she was elected to the American [Academy of Arts and Sciences].
Publications
Books
- ''Praise Songs for Dave the Potter: Art and Poetry for David Drake''