Rachel Walsh

Position: Associate Teaching Professor
Pronouns: she/her
Phone: 419-372-7561
Email: walshr@bgsu.edu
Address: 319 East Hall

Degrees and Institutions

MA & PhD in English, State University of New York, Stony Brook
BA, English, with an interdisciplinary minor in History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, summa cum laude, Bowling Green State University

Afiiliations

International Studies Program, American Culture Studies, and the Honors College

Awards:

Institute for Culture and Society's Faculty Fellowship, Fall 2025

Research Interests: Multiethnic Literatures of the U.S., American Literature, Contemporary, Transnational Literature, Comparative Theories of Racialization, Ethnicity, and Racial Capitalism, Neoliberalism, Affect Theory, Global Migration and Border Studies.

Courses Taught

ENG. 6800: It's All a Scam: Con Artists, Influencers, and Conspiracy Theories in American Literature and Culture
ENG. 6800: Authors in Cultural Context: James Baldwin
ENG. 6800: Trespassing Borders
ENG. 6070: Literary Theory and Methods of Criticism
ENG. 4340: Authors in Cultural Context: James Baldwin
ENG. 3100: Multiethnic Literatures of the U.S.
ENG. 2750: American Literature, 1865-1945
ENG. 2110: African American Literature
ENG. 2010: Introduction to Literature

Publications

Book Chapters:

"Dispatches from Beneath the Flightpath: A Counter-Archive of Drone Warfare in Atef Abu Saif's The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary" in Human Rights in the Age of Drones: Critical Perspectives on Post-9/11 Literature, Film and Art. Edited by Muhammad Waqar Azeem. Palgrave MacMillan, 2026.
"Replotting the Bildungsroman through a Queer Poetics in Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous." in The Postcolonial Bildungsroman: Narratives of Youth, Representational Politics, and Aesthetic Reinventions. Edited by Arnab Dutta Roy and Paul Ugor, University of Alberta Press, 2025.

Select Articles:

"Forecasting Catastrophes of Whiteness: Affects of Neoliberal Realism and Visions of a Terrorized Multiracial Precariat in Atticus Lish's Preparation for the Next Life" Contemporary Literature, 60.4, Winter 2019, pp. 549-581.
“What Stories We Tell When We Talk About Torture: Mapping the National Family and the Geopolitics of Compassion in Rendition and 24: Redemption.” Society and Space: Environment and Planning D, Special Issue: Geographies of Counter-Terror Culture, vol. 29, no. 1, 2011, pp.150-68.
“‘Not grace, then, but at least the body’: Accounting for the Self in J.M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron.” Twentieth-Century Literature, vol. 56, no. 2, 2010, pp. 168-195.

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