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Wendy W. Walters specializes in African American Literature, in the larger context of diaspora studies. She is the author of Archives of the Black Atlantic: Reading Between Literature and History (Routledge 2013) and At Home in Diaspora: Black International Writing (U Minnesota 2005). 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, Radical Teacher, Novel, Critical Arts, and MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.). She has published chapters in the books Oil Fictions; Education Behind the Wall; Memory as Colonial Capital; Borders, Exiles, Diasporas; Diasporic Africa: A Reader, as well as entries in the Oxford Companion to African American Literature, Black Writers; The Critical Response to Chester Himes, and elsewhere.

 Archives of the Black Atlantic At Home in Diaspora

About

Education

B.A., Brown University
M.A., University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego

Publications

At Home in Diaspora: Black International Writing

2005

Archives of the Black Atlantic: Reading Between Literature and History

2013

Awards & Honors

Fellow, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University

2001