Melissa Schindler

Melissa E. Schindler’s teaching and research have been shaped by international experiences. She has been a Peace Corps volunteer in Mozambique, a Fulbright student fellow in Brazil, and an academic researcher in Sri Lanka and India. She is currently working on a book manuscript on how the work of African-American artists engages with Latin America. Her research can be found in Research in African Literatures, South Asian Review, Pre-Text, and Obsidian. 

• English 1101—Composition I
• English 1102—Composition II
• English 2112—World Literature II
• English 3350—Postcolonial World Literature
• English 3360—African Literatures & Cultures

• “From the Margin to the Fold: The Imprint of Toni Morrison on the Writing of Akwaeke Emezi.” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 52, No. 2: 227-245.
• “Resisting Narratives: An African Soldier in Sri Lanka’s Anticolonial Struggle.” South Asian Review. Published online May 2022. Scheduled for print publication in 2023, Vol. 44. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02759527.2022.2072587
• “The Black Atlantic.” The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction. Ed. Lesley Larkin. Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia: 2021.
• “Archive fever and the missing queer Dutchman: Case File K626.” Pre/Text: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory, 24 (Spring 2019): 59-80.
• “How Hemingway’s Cats Will Save Literary Studies.” Caesura—Journal of Philological and Humanistic Studies. 4.2 (2018): 45-66.
• “‘Ser mulher não tem ligação com feminismo nem com opção sexual!’: a teoria em prática num banheiro público.” Corpo, Arte, Tecnologia, ed. Bastos, A., De Souza, E. M., and LaGuardia, A. R. Belo Horizonte: Editora UFMG: 2017.
• “A solidão da escuridão”: On Visual Impairment and the Visibility of Race.” Libre Acceso: Latin American Literature and Film through Disability Studies, ed. Antebi, S. and J Jörgensen, Beth E. SUNY Press: 2016.
• “Home, or the Limits of the Black Atlantic.” Research in African Literatures 45.3 (2014): 72-90.