UW-Milwaukee - College of Letters and Science

Sandra M. Grayson, Associate Professor

Office: Curtin Hall 476
Phone: 414-229-4524
e-mail: sgrayson@uwm.edu
Web Site: www.uwm.edu/~sgrayson

Degree(s):

Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
M.A. California State University, Long Beach
B.A., Hawaii Pacific University

Teaching Interests:

African American Literature and Film
African Literature and Film

Other Relevant Activities:

Editor, Network 2000: In the Spirit of the Harlem Renaissance, 1994-present;
Editor, Langston Hughes Colloquy, 2000-present.

Recent Publications:

Books:
Visions of the Third Millennium: Black Science Fiction Novelists Write the Future, Africa World Press, 2003

Symbolizing the Past: Reading Sankofa, Daughters of the Dust, and Eve's Bayou as Histories, University Press of America, 2000.

Articles:
"Screen Jelimusow: Black Women Independent Filmmakers" in African Spirit and Black Nationalism: A Discourse in African and African American Studies, Lagos, Nigeria: Foresight Press, 2003.

"Black Women and American Slavery: Forms of Resistance" in Sharpened Edge: Women of Color, Resistance, and Writing, Praeger, 2003.

"Djibril Diop Mambety: A Retrospective" in Research in African Literatures, 2001.

"'Spirits of Asona Ancestors Come': Reading Asante Signs in Haile Gerima's Sankofa" in College Language Association Journal, 1998.

"Encoding and Decoding: The Ifa Worldview in 'The King Buzzard' and 'Transmigration'" in College Language Association Journal, 1997.

"Signs, Symbols, and Slave Culture: Representations in Black Thunder" in Trotter Review, 1996.

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