Wendy Walters

Wendy W. Walters specializes in African American Literature, in the larger context of diaspora studies. She is the author of Archives of the Black Atlantic: Reading Between Literature and History (Routledge 2013) and At Home in Diaspora: Black International Writing (U Minnesota 2005). In 2001-2002 she was a non-resident fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University.

She has published articles in the journals Callaloo, American Literature, African American Review, Radical Teacher, Novel, Critical Arts, and MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.). She has published chapters in the books Oil Fictions; Education Behind the Wall; Memory as Colonial Capital; Borders, Exiles, Diasporas; Diasporic Africa: A Reader, as well as entries in the Oxford Companion to African American Literature, Black Writers; The Critical Response to Chester Himes, and elsewhere.