Michael Schmidt

Faculty Profile

Assistant Professor - Teaching
ac9346@wayne.edu

Department

Center for Gender and Sexuality

Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program

 

Secondary Title

Assistant Director & Academic Student Services Coordinator, Center for Gender and Sexuality

Office

Center for Gender and Sexuality

Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program (GSW)
Wayne State University
5057 Woodward, 9th floor, room 9204.1
Detroit, MI 48202

Biography

I am an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Center for Gender and Sexuality where I also work as the Assistant Director and Academic Student Services Coordinator. My research interests include twentieth century American literature, literary theory, Marxism, forms of community, and gender and sexuality. My work has appeared in several journals and the anthology Modernism and Unreadability (Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée). 

Selected publications

“Nightwood as a Way of Life.” Feminist Modernist Studies 2.1 (2019): 104-120.

“A Materialist Desire in The Young and Evil.” Studies in American Fiction 48.2 (2018): 213-233.

“Cruising Henry James: The Scene of Queer Sociality as a Critique of Capital.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 22.1 (2016): 81-108.

Research Description

I am an advisor and student engagement officer with the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program (GSW). In addition to my administrative work, I am also a part-time lecturer for the GSW Program and Department of English. My research interests include twentieth century American literature, literary theory, Marxism, forms of community, and gender and sexuality. My work has appeared in several journals and the anthology Modernism and Unreadability (Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée). And I am currently editing a manuscript where I explore queer aesthetic innovation as an engagement with the uneven terrain of sexual history and global capital

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