Comparative Studies of Race and Ethnicity at Stanford


« Faculty Bios		Michele Elam Director of AAAS Associate Professor, English Office: 460-319 Email: melam@stanford.edu Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor, is an Associate Professor in English and Director of the Program in African & African American Studies. She is the author of Race, Work, and Desire in American Literature, 1860-1930 (Cambridge University Press, 2003), Mixed Race in the New Millennium (Stanford University Press, forthcoming), and is currently working on a book on post-race and post-apartheid performance in the U.S. and South Africa with her husband, Professor Harry J. Elam, Jr. She has published articles in African American Review, American Literature, Callaloo, Theatre Journal, and Genre, among others. Her work also appears in collections on race and culture such as Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race and Gender from ""Oroonoko"" to Anita Hill (eds. Cathy Davidson and Michael Moon, Duke University Press) and in W.E.B. Du Bois and the Gender of the Color-Line(U of Minnesota P., eds. Susan Gillman and Alys Weinbaum). Twice the recipient of the St Clair Drake Outstanding Teaching Award at Stanford (2004, 2006), Professor Elam served as Director of Undergraduate Studies 2006-8, and teaches undergraduate and graduate seminars on Narratives of Slavery & Theories of Redress; Mixed Race Literature and Theory; W.E.B. Du Bois and American Culture; James Baldwin; Toni Morrison & the Occasion of Black Feminism; the Harlem and Chicago Renaissances; African American Literary History & Theory; Black Cultural Performance, among others. Her courses and research interests span the 18th-21st centuries, from Olaudah Equiano to Aaron McGruder. Related Links English Department Faculty Profile


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