Sandra M. Grayson, Professor

email: sgrayson@uwm.edu
phone: 414-229-4524
office: Curtin Hall 476
website: www.uwm.edu/~sgrayson

Degrees:

PhD, University of California, Riverside
MA, California State University, Long Beach
BA, 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

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.

Articles
"Screen Jelimusow: Black Women Independent Filmmakers." 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." Sharpened Edge: Women of Color, Resistance, and Writing. Praeger, 2003.

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

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

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

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