Maisha Wester, Assistant Professor

maishaw@bgnet.bgsu.edu

106 East Hall
419-372-7158

Degrees and Institutions:

Ph.D., English, University of Florida
M.A., English, University of Florida
B.A., English, University of North Florida

Courses Taught:

Graduate Courses:
ENG 675  Contemporary Vampires: Metaphors of Oppression in 21st Centure America (BGSU, Fall 2008)

ACS 675  Monstrous Maidens, Consuming Queerness: Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Horror Films (BGSU, Spring 2008)

ENG 675  The Horrors of Blackness: African Americans Revising the Gothic (BGSU, Fall 2007)

ACS 675  (Sub)Urban Blackness: Constructing Race and Class in American Culture (BGSU, Spring 2007)

Other Courses:
ENG 434  100 Years of Terror: Twentieth Century American Gothic Fiction (BGSU, Spring 2008)

AML 3270  Survey of African American Literature I: 1785 to 1930 (University of Florida, Spring 2006)

AML 4242  Writing the Black (Wo)Man's Body in Twentieth Century American Literature (University of Florida, Fall 2005)

Undergraduate Courses:
ACS 250  Cultural Pluralism in the United States (BGSU, Fall 2008, Fall 2007)

ENG 211 Survey of African American Literature (BGSU, Spring 2007)

ENG 200  Film and Literature: Reading and Watching Horror (BGSU, Fall 2006)

AML 2070  Introduction to American Literature: Theories of African American Literature (University of Florida, Spring 2003)

AML 2410  Issues in American Literature: Race in American Gothic Literature (University of Florida, Fall 2006)

AML 2410  Monstrous 'Others': The Nature and Face of Terror in American Gothic Fiction (University of Florida, Spring 2002)

ENC 1102 Introduction to Reading and Writing About Literature (University of Florida, Spring 2000 & 2001)

ENC 1101  Introduction to Expository and Argumentative Writing (University of Florida, Summer 2000, Fall 2000, Fall 2005

Area: American Culture Studies; African American Literature; Twentieth Century American Literature

Research Interests: African American Gothic Literature; Horror Films

Recent Publications:

"Haunting and Haunted Queerness: Randall Kenan's Reinscription of Difference in A Visitation of Spirits". Callaloo 30.4 (Spring 2004)

In progress: "The Lost Voices of Tims Creek: Narrative Re-inscription in A Visitation of Spirits and 'Let the Dead Bury Their Dead'"

Work In Progress:

"Katrina's Skeleton Key: Reading Race, Class, and Abjection in Film and Catastrophe".  American Quarterly.

"Torture Porn and the Uneasy Feminist: Reviewing Women in the Hostel Series"

Screams from Shadowed Places: Contemporary African-American Revisions of Gothic Racial Ideologies (Book Project)