Mona Lisa Saloy
Conrad N Hilton Endowed Professor in English Coordinator of English @Dillard University
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WORK HISTORY
Conrad N Hilton Endowed Professor in English Coordinator of English @Dillard University
This new position provides support for research and travel and is partially funded by the Louisiana Board of Regents.
EDUCATION
University of Washington
B.A., English & Creative Writing
Louisiana State University
Ph.D., English, Folklore
San Francisco State University
M.A., Creative Writing: Poetry
SKILLS
ABOUT MONA LISA SALOY
Recent Feature:Published new works in \"the Chicago Quarterly Review\'s ’s new Anthology of Black American Literature, where gifted writers, poets, and artists shed their truths, anyone of open heart and mind can empathize with the joys, struggles, accomplishments, and recursiveness of being Black in America (Tina Jenkins Bell).Other recent pubs: “New Orleans, a Neighborhood Nation.” I am New Orleans, anthology. Kalamu ya Salaam, editor. University of New Orleans Press, 2021; and in the Historic New Orleans Collection performance, “Erase th Tyranny of Today.” & Culturekreolmagazine.comAuthor, folklorist, essayist, and poet Dr. Mona Lisa Saloy is a passionate literary voice representing the African-American and the New Orleans Creole cultural.Recent Publications Books:Second Line Home, New Orleans Poems. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2014.Red Beans and Ricely Yours: Poems. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2005. Articles, Chapters\"Zora Neale Hurston on River Road: Portrait of Algiers, New Orleans, and Her Fieldwork,\" Louisiana Folklore Miscellany, Volume 21( December 2011): 43-61.\"Sidewalk Songs, Jump-Rope Rhymes, and Clap-Hand Games of African American Children.\" Children\'s Folklore Review. 33 (2011).“Forward.” Night Sessions: Poems by David S. Cho. New Jersey: Cavankerry, 2011.“New Orleans Black Indian Tradition at Mardi Gras,” New Orleans: What Can’t Be Lost. Lafayette: University of Louisiana Press, August 2010.Recent Poetry Published:Multiple poems at: in 2005: New Orleans Neighborhood Necessities,” The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume IV: Louisiana, December 2011, editor, William Wright.“On Not Being Able to Write a Poem, to New Orleans Post Katrina” and “For the New Young Bloods on my Porch,” Marvin X, editor. Pan African Literary Journal, Fall, 4.2 (2010): 215-219. “Post-K Poems,” Dave Brinks, editor, 2007. Online poetry journal.“We,” Konch online journal, 2006.Specialties: Culture of New Orleans Louisiana; Folklore, Literature
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