BGSU English Department

Maisha Wester, Assistant Professor

maishaw@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:

Undergraduate:

ENG 2000  Film and Literature: Reading and Watching Horror
ENG 2110 Survey of African American Literature 
ACS 2500  Cultural Pluralism in the United States
ACS 3000/WS 3000 Interpretations of American Culture: Gender in Horror Cinema
ENG 4340 100 Years of Terror: Twentieth Century American Gothic Fiction

Graduate:
ENG 6800 American Gothic Literature
ACS 7820 Wicked Wives/Queer Cannibals
ENG 6750  Contemporary Vampires: Metaphors of Oppression in 21st Centure America
ACS 6750  Monstrous Maidens, Consuming Queerness: Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Horror Films
ENG 6750  The Horrors of Blackness: African Americans Revising the Gothic
ACS 6750  (Sub)Urban Blackness: Constructing Race and Class in American Culture

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)