Maurice Wallace, Associate Professor, English
Office Location: 322 Allen Bldg
Office Phone: +1 919 684 3939
Email Address: mwallace@duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.duke.edu/web/africanameric/~mwallace
Specialties:
African American Literature
American Literature
Gender & Sexuality Studies
Education:
Ph.D., Duke University, 1995
A.B., Washington University-St. Louis, 1989
Teaching (Fall 2008):
- ENGLISH 52.01, Rep american writers
Synopsis
- Allen 226, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
- ENGLISH 164A.01, African american lit
Synopsis
- Social sciences 109, WF 02:50 PM-04:05 PM
Recent Publications (More Publications)
- Riveted to the Wall: Covetous Fathers, Devoted Sons, and the Patriarchal Pieties of Herman Melville and Frederick Douglass, edited by Robert Levine and Samuel Otter, Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville: Essays in Relation (forthcoming), University of North Carolina Press .
- How a Man Was Made a Slave: Contraband, Chiasmus and the Failure of Visual Abolitionism, ELN: English Language Notes. Special Issue on Race and Photography, vol. 44 no. 2 (Fall/ Winter 2006), pp. 175-180 .
- Politics, Publicness and the Price of the Ticket: James Baldwin and the Public Sphere" ("Prospects for the Study of James Baldwin"), edited by Richard Kopley and Barbara Cantalupo, Prospects for the Study of American Literature (in press), AMS Press .
- I AM a Man: Latent Doubt, Public Protest and the Anxious Construction of Black American Manhood, in Schomburg Studies in the Black Experience: Ideology, Identity and Assumptions, edited by Howard Dodson and Colin Palmer (2007), pp. 133-178, Michigan State University Press .
- What Nellie Knew: For Nellie McKay (in memoriam), African American Review, vol. 40:1 (Spring, 2006), pp. 33-35 .