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Michele Wallace
Position: Professor, The City College. English
Campus Affiliation: City College of New York
Phone: 212-650-6367
Room Number: 4404
olympia2x@gmail.com
mwallace@ccny.cuny.edu
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Degrees/Diplomas: Ph.D., New York University.
Research Interests: African-American literature and poetics; feminist literature and poetics; gender and sexuality; queer theory; literary theory; American cinema and film theory; American visual culture; popular culture; affiliations with MLA, Society of Cinema Studies, Oscar Micheaux Society, and PEN.
Specialization: African American Literature and Literary Theory|Film and Literature|Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist/Queer Theory|Literature after 1945|Modernism|Nineteenth-Century US Literature|Popular Culture|Visual Culture


Selected Publications:

  • Dark Designs and Visual Culture, Duke Up, 2004.

  • Black Popular Culture, A Project by Michele Wallace, edited by Gina Dent, Bay Press/Dia Center for the Arts, Seattle and New York, 1993, 373 pages.

  • Invisibility Blues: From Pop To Theory, Haymarket Series: Verso, New York and London, 1990, 267 pages.

  • Black Macho and The Myth of The Superwoman (reissued with critical introduction and bibliography), Haymarket Series; Verso, New York and London, 1990, 228 pages.

  • Black Macho and The Myth of The Superwoman, The Dial Press, 1979; Warner Press, 1980; John Calder, London, England, 1980; Asahi Shimban Sha, Tokyo, Japan, 1982, 182 pages.

  • "Race, Gender and Psychoanalysis in Forties Film: Lost Boundaries,' 'Home of the Brave' and 'The Quiet One,'" Black American Cinema, Manthia Diawara, ed., AFI Film Readers: Routledge, 1993, pp. 257-271.