People
Faculty
Stefanie Dunning
Titles
- Associate Professor
- Affliate, Black World Studies
- Affliate, Women’s Studies
Education
- Ph.D. University of California, Riverside (2001)
- B.A. Spelman College
Teaching Interests
- African American literature
- Film and visual culture
- Gay and lesbian studies/queer theory
- Postcolonial literature and theory
Research Interests
- African American literature
- Film and visual culture
- Gay and lesbian studies/queer theory
- Postcolonial literature and theory
Selected Publications
- “Our Sister Kills Joy: Africa, Nationalism, and Homosexuality.” Forthcoming in 2006 in Domains: The Journal of the International Centre for Ethnic Studies.
- “Ironic Soil: Recuperative Rhythms and Negotiated Nationalism.” Forthcoming in 2005 in African American Review.
- “Brown Like Me: An Essay of Shifting Ideology.” Mixing It Up. Eds. SanSan Kwan and Kenneth Spears. University of Texas Press, Fall 2004.
- “Alice Walker.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, 2004.
- Review of “Mixed Race. Ed. Jonathan Brennan.” Modern Fiction Studies 49: 4 (2003).
- “Parallel Perversions: Interracial and Same Sexuality in James Baldwin’s Another Country.” MELUS 26:2 (Winter 2001). 95-115.
- “Vegetarianism without Self-righteousness: The Politics of ‘Consciousness’ and Cultural Identity.” Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire 2.3 (Winter 1999). 144-152.
- “Demystifying the Tragic Mulatta: The Biracial Woman as Spectacle.” Stanford Black Arts Quarterly 2.3 (Summer/Spring 1997). 12-14.
Work in Progress
Professor Dunning is currently at work on a book entitled Queer in Black and White: Interraciality, Same Sex Desire, and Contemporary African American Culture, forthcoming from Indiana University Press in 2008 .