Interview by N'Kosi Oates, May 2024. Listen on New Books Network, Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
"Making Toni Morrison," March 2024. Listen on WBEZ Chicago, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify.
Interview by DuEwa Frazier, Nerdacity Podcast, March 2024. Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
Blog post, "Beyond the Famous Few: Five Women Who Shaped Black History and Literature," Columbia University Press, February 2024.
Interview by Jeff O'Neal, First Edition Podcast, Book Riot. November 2023.
Reviewed in Publisher's Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, and the Times Literary Supplement
The Millions "Most Anticipated" Books of 2023"; Town and Country "Must-Read Books of Fall 2023" and "Best Books of November 2023"; LitHub "Ultimate Fall Books 2023 Preview," Library Journal "Editors' Fall Picks"; Los Angeles Times "Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Fall," and "18 Best Nonfiction Books" of 2023; Association of University Presses "Work that Sparks Conversation"; TheGrio, "Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide"; 2023 Seminary Co-op Notables; Black Perspectives "The Best Black History Books of 2023"
2024 Black History Month selection of the Black Women’s Studies Association, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Powell's Bookstore
2024 Museum of African American History Stone Book Award official submission
LitHub excerpt "How Michele Wallace Sought Black Women's Liberation Through Art: Courtney Thorsson on the Emergence of a Black Feminist Literary Culture in America"
Book Publication Award, Office of the Provost, University of Oregon
"The Sisterhood, 1977 Photograph," Remarkable Receptions podcast, August 2022. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Google Podcasts.
"Toni Morrison's Beloved," Remarkable Receptions podcast, June 2022. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher.
Review of From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture by Koritha Mitchell. Legacy 38.1-2 (2021): 163-65.
Panel discussion with Mecca Jamilah Sullivan and Patricia Spears Jones, "Creation Is Everything You Do: Shange, The Sisterhood, and Black Collectivity," Barnard College, March 2021.
"Kitchen, Nation, Diaspora: Ntozake Shange's African American Foodways." Foodscapes: Food, Space, and Place in a Global Society edited by Carlnita Greene. Peter Lang, 2018: 199-222.
"Foodways in Contemporary African American Poetry: Harryette Mullen and Evie Shockley." Contemporary Literature. 57.2 (Summer 2016): 184-215.
Co-author, "Black Women's Food Work as Critical Space." Gastronomica 15.4 (Winter 2015): 34-49.
"Gwendolyn Brooks's Black Aesthetic of the Domestic," MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 40.1 (2015): 149-76.
"James Baldwin and Black Women's Fiction." African American Review 46.4. (2013): 615-31.
Women's Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women's Novels (Virginia 2013).
Contact:
Writing inquiries: Kathleen Anderson
Speaking inquiries: Annette Luba-Lucas
Email: thorsson@uoregon.edu
Website: courtneythorsson.com