Malin
Pereira, Ph.D.
Chair and Professor
Ph.D., English, University of Wisconsin-Madison , 1992
Minor: Afro-American Studies
M.A., English, University of Wisconsin-Madison , 1986
B.A., English and Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison , 1984, with distinction
My areas of research interest include African American literature, poetry, and Oprah's Book Club. Currently, I am finishing a book of substantial interviews with eight contemporary African American poets, and have essays in progress on Elizabeth Alexander, Wanda Coleman, and race in Oprah's Book Club.
Books:
“Into a Light Both Beautiful and Unseen”: Interviews With Contemporary African American Poets . Under contract with University of Georgia Press . Projected completion, 2008.
Rita Dove's Cosmopolitanism . Chicago : University of Illinois Press, 2003. (Chapter “ Museum and Cosmopolitanism” reprinted in Black Literature Criticism ,
Thomson Gale Publishing, forthcoming 2008.)
Embodying Beauty: Twentieth-Century American Women Writers' Aesthetics . In series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory: The Interaction of Text and Society. New York : Routledge (formerly Garland ), 2000.
Recent Articles:
“ The Corrections , Foucault, and Oprah's Book Club.” The Journal of Popular Culture. Forthcoming 2008.
“`The Poet in the World, the World in the Poet': Cyrus Cassells' and Elizabeth Alexander's Versions of Post-Soul Cosmopolitanism.” Forthcoming, African American Review Special Issue on the Post-Soul Aesthetic 41.4 (Winter 2007).
“Oprah's Book Club and the American Dream.” The Oprah Phenomenon. Ed. Jennifer Harris and Elwood Watson. Lexington : University of Kentucky Press, 2007. 191-205.
“Nellie McKay.” African American Review 40.1 (Spring 2006): 64-66.
“The Sermons on the Warpland: Gwendolyn Brooks' Moral Vision.” Gwendolyn Brooks Casebook in Strategies for Reading and Arguing About Literature , by Meg Morgan, Kim Stallings and Julie Townsend. New York : Prentice Hall, 2006. 434-38
Interview with Cyrus Cassells. Contemporary Literature 44.3 (Fall 2003): 381-398.
"'When the pear blossoms / cast their pale faces on / the darker face of the earth': Miscegenation, the Primal Scene, and the Incest Motif in Rita Dove's Work." African American Review 36.2 (Summer 2002): 195-211.
Interview with Rita Dove. Contemporary Literature 40.2 (Summer 1999): 183-213. Rpt as “Going Up Is a Place of Great Loneliness.” Conversations With Rita Dove, Ed. Earl G. Ingersoll. Oxford : University Press of Mississippi , 2003. 148-173. Rpt. In Rita Dove's Cosmopolitanism.
Recent Papers Presented at National/International Conferences:
“Sister Seer and Scribe: Sylvia Plath and Contemporary African American Women Poets.” The Sylvia Plath 75 th Year Symposium Literary Conference. Oxford , England , October 25-29, 2007 .
“Elizabeth Alexander's Questions of Travel.” The Collegium for African American Research Bi-Annual Conference. Madrid , Spain , April 18-21, 2007 .
“Elizabeth Alexander's American Sublime .” The Louisville Conference in Literature and Culture Since 1900. Louisville , KY , February 22-25, 2007 .
“Correcting Oprah's Book Club,” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. Atlanta , GA , April 12-15, 2006 .
“Cyrus Cassells' Black Atlantic Innerspace,” The Collegium for African American Research Bi-Annual Conference. Tours , France , April 20-23, 2005 .
“Oprah's Book Club and the American Dream,” Popular Culture Association/American
Culture Association Conference. San Antonio , TX , April 7-10, 2004 .
“The Cosmopolitan I/Eye in Yusef Komunyakaa's and Cyrus Cassells' Poetry,” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. Louisville , KY , February 27- March 1, 2003 .
“Rita Dove's Blues,” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. Louisville , KY , Feb. 23-25, 2001 .
Recent Invited Presentations:
“Nellie McKay and the Art of Mentoring.” Modern Language Association Conference. Philadelphia ,, PA , Dec 27-30, 2006 .
Nellie McKay and Black Women's Studies: A Symposium. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison , WI , April 1, 2006.
“Cyrus Cassells' and Elizabeth Alexander's Versions of Post-Soul Cosmopolitanism.” Africana Studies Lecture Series. UNC Charlotte , Charlotte , NC , Jan. 28, 2006.
“Rita Dove's Cosmopolitan Poetry.” Spotlight on Research Series, UNC Charlotte Cable TV, March 25, 2004 . “I Got Mine, But What About the Others? A Personal View of Parental Leave,” Modern Language Association Conference. New Orleans , LA , Dec. 27-30, 2001 .
Selected grants
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Fellowship, 2000
Undergraduate Research Initiative Grant, UNC General Administration, 2006-07
Graduate Courses Taught:
African American Poetics; Teaching African American Literature; Contemporary African American Poetry (1980s-1990s); Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes; Twentieth-Century African American Poetics; Rita Dove; African American Literary Theory and Criticism; Modernist American Poetry; Major Black Poets; Introduction to English Studies.
Undergraduate Courses Taught:
African American Poetry; Oprah's Books; Major American Author--Toni Morrison; Modern American Literature--1920 to present; American Literature survey ENGL 3300; Black Women Writers; Approaches to Literature ENGL 3100; Three African American Women Writers; Twentieth-Century Black Poetry and Drama; Twentieth-Century British and American Literature.
Professional Appointments:
University of North Carolina at Charlotte , English Department
- Professor, 2007-present
- Associate Professor, 1998-2007
- Assistant Professor, 1992-1998
- Affiliate Faculty, Africana Studies Department, 1992-present
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Afro-American Studies Department
Administrative Appointments:
- Chair, English Department, 2007-present
- Interim Chair, Africana Studies Department, 2006-2007
- Learning Community Coordinator, English Department, 2005- 2007
- Undergraduate Coordinator, English Department, 1999-2003
Awards
“Outstanding Faculty Member,” Student Support Services (TRIO), 2001 “Outstanding Mentor ,” Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program, 1995 and 1997
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