School of the Arts Faculty
Wendy W. Walters
Associate Professor (1999)
B.A. Brown University, M.A. University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego
Dr. Wendy W. Walters specializes in African American Literature, in the larger context of diaspora studies. She is the author of At Home in Diaspora: Black International Writing. In 2001-2002 she was a non-resident fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University.
She has published articles in the journals Callaloo, American Literature, African American Review, Novel, Critical Arts, and MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.). She has published chapters in the books Borders, Exiles, Diasporas, and Diasporic Africa: A Reader, as well as entries in the Oxford Companion to African American Literature, Black Writers, and The Critical Response to Chester Himes.
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