Dr. Sandra M. Grayson, Associate Professor

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Department of English

E-mail: sgrayson@uwm.edu 

Selected 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). Edited Books:  A Literary Revolution:  In the Spirit of the Harlem Renaissance. (Ed. Sandra M. Grayson.  University Press of America,  2008). Sparks of Resistance, Flames of Change:  Black Communities and Activism. (Eds. Sandra M. Grayson and Muyiwa Falaiye. Lagos, Nigeria:  Foresight Press, 2005).  Articles include: “Screen Jelimuso:  Julie Dash and Political Films” in  A Literary Revolution:  In the Spirit of the Harlem Renaissance (University Press of America, 2008).  “Recalling Sovereign Kentakes: Pauline Hopkins’ Of One Blood” in  A Literary Revolution:  In the Spirit of the Harlem Renaissance (University Press of America, 2008) “Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood and Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust as Speculative Fiction” in Sparks of Resistance, Flames of Change:  Black Communities and Activism (Lagos, Nigeria:  Foresight Press, 2005).  "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).

Selected National and International Presentations include: “Creating Religion, Reflecting Alternative Worldviews:  Earthseed in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower.”  Modern Language Association Convention.  “Representing Legacies of Slavery:  Legal Cases, Race, and Difference in Samuel R. Delany’s The Einstein Intersection.”  Modern Language Association Convention.  “Black Science Fiction Writers Explore the Problem of the Color-line.” Association for the Study of African American Life and History National Conference. “Pauline Hopkins’ Of One Blood as Speculative Fiction.” WisCon.

Editor, Langston Hughes Colloquy and Network 2000: In the Spirit of the Harlem Renaissance.  www.lhcolloquy.com