Tony Ballas

Anthony Ballas is a PhD student in the Program in Literature. His primary research interests include Atlantic and Caribbean literatures, Haitian Studies, historiography, and internationalism in the long nineteenth century (1791-1955). He also researches Jazz, Hip Hop, poetics, Cold War-era cinema, 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, Scalawag Magazine, and elsewhere. His full list of publications can be found here: https://duke.academia.edu/AnthonyBallas/CurriculumVitae. 

PhD Duke University, Program in Literature (in progress)
MA University of Colorado Denver, English Composition and Rhetoric
BA Summa Cum Laude, University of Colorado Denver, English Literature and Film
BA Magna Cum Laude, University of Colorado Denver, Philosophy