Kimberly Wallace-Sanders
Ph.D., American Studies, Boston University, 1996

Research Interests

Race, gender, and representation;19th Century popular culture; African-American material culture; Body theory and Feminism; Black Mammy iconography

Publications and Projects

• "A Vessel of Possibilities: Teaching Through the Expectant Body" in The Teacher's Body: Embodiment Identity and Authority in the Academy, State University of New York, 2003, pages 187-197
• Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender and Southern Memory, forthcoming
• The Black Female Body in American Culture: Critical Essays, Univeristy of Michigan Press, 2002.
• "Dishing up Dixie: Recycling the Southern Domestic Ideal," in Burning Down the House, Harper Collins, 1998.
• "Dark Bodies of Discourse: Nineteenth-Century African American Women and the Power of the Word." 1999, Vol. 51, No. 3, American Quarterly.
• "Intentional Media: The Crossroads Conversations on Learning and Technology in the American Culture and History Classroom." Works and Days, Spring/Fall 1998.
• Rev. of Every Tub Must Sit on Its Own Bottom: the Politics and Philosophies of Zora Neale Hurston. Arkansas Historical Association Review, Spring 1997.
• "Feminism." Entry in Oxford Companion to African American Literature, Oxford University Press, 1997.
• "Clarissa Thompson Allen." Entry in Oxford Companion to African American Literature, Oxford University Press, 1997.
• "Henrietta Cordelia Ray." Entry in Oxford Companion to African American Literature, Oxford University Press, 1997.
• "Buck." Entry in Oxford Companion to African American Literature, Oxford University Press, 1997.
• "Educating Black Women Students for the Multicultural Future" with Beverly Guy-Sheftall, SIGNS, Autumn, 1996.
• "Permanent Diversity: The Deferred Vision of Higher Education," Initiatives, 53.1 (1990): 9-13.
• Select and Annotated Bibliography for: Courage and Conscience; The Anti-Slavery Movement in Boston. University of Indiana Press, 1993.
• Rev. of the Collected Poems of May Miller, ed. Miriam DeCosta. SAGE: A Scholarly Black Woman's Journal, Fall 1989: 62-63.

Courses

Undergraduate

• Women's Studies
• The Female Body and Womanist Theory
• American Identities
• Cultural Perspectives on: Southern Stereotypes and Iconography
• American Culture: Conflicts and Resolution

Graduate

• Female Body in American Culture
• Gender and African American Material Culture
• Pedagogy
• American Studies Pro Seminar