{"id":5,"date":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/template-faculty01\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2023-02-26T18:06:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T18:06:54","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/malin-pereira\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tm-content-container\">\n<div id=\"node-109\">\n<h3>Education<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li data-wp-editing=\"1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/malin-pereira\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2020\/12\/Malin-Pereira-headshot-2020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-68  alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/malin-pereira\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2020\/12\/Malin-Pereira-headshot-2020-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/malin-pereira\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2020\/12\/Malin-Pereira-headshot-2020-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/malin-pereira\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2020\/12\/Malin-Pereira-headshot-2020-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/malin-pereira\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2020\/12\/Malin-Pereira-headshot-2020-768x1075.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/malin-pereira\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2020\/12\/Malin-Pereira-headshot-2020-1097x1536.jpg 1097w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/malin-pereira\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2020\/12\/Malin-Pereira-headshot-2020-1463x2048.jpg 1463w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/malin-pereira\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2020\/12\/Malin-Pereira-headshot-2020.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/><\/a>Ph.D., English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992<br \/>Minor: Afro-American Studies<\/li>\n<li>B.A., English and Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1984, with distinction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Areas of Interest<\/h3>\n<p>My research and teaching interests lie in African American and American literature, especially contemporary Black poetry. I published a scholarly monograph on the poetry of Rita Dove with University of Illinois Press (2003) and a book of substantial interviews with eight post-black arts movement poets with University of Georgia Press (2010). My most recent work, published in 2019 and 2020, on the poetry of Thylias Moss, Brenda Marie Osbey and Natasha Trethewey, is complemented by an ongoing interest in highlighting the poetic achievements of Wanda Coleman. I regularly present my scholarship on contemporary Black poetry as a panelist and keynote speaker at international conferences, most recently in Cyprus, Bergen, Shanghai, Warsaw, and Graz. Currently, I am working on a book project focused on Black ekphrastic poetry and serve on the advisory board for the Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University, t<span class=\"aCOpRe\">he nation&#8217;s first academic center for Black poetry. In the honors world, I am first author of a chapter forthcoming in a National Collegiate Honors Council monograph on honors colleges; our chapter interrogates the prevalence of white male honors college deans and makes recommendations for what to do about it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Selected Publications and Presentations<\/h3>\n<h4>Books:<\/h4>\n<p><em>Into a Light Both Brilliant and Unseen: Conversations With Contemporary Black Poets.\u00a0<\/em> University of Georgia Press, 2010. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ugapress.org\/upload\/F10Catalog_LO.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.ugapress.org\/upload\/F10Catalog_LO.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Rita Dove&#8217;s Cosmopolitanism<\/em>. Chicago, IL : University of Illinois Press, 2003.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.press.uillinois.edu\/books\/?id=c028373\">https:\/\/www.press.uillinois.edu\/books\/?id=c028373<\/a> <strong>&#8220;Highly Recommended&#8221; by <em>Choice<\/em><\/strong>, 2004<\/p>\n<p><em>Embodying Beauty: Twentieth-Century American Women Writers&#8217; Aesthetics<\/em>. In series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory: The Interaction of Text and Society. New York: Routledge (formerly Garland), 2000.<\/p>\n<h4>Selected Recent Articles:<\/h4>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cA Black Cosmopolitan Poetics,&#8221; forthcoming in <em>The Cambridge History of African American Poetry.<\/em> Ed. Keith Leonard. 2023. 30 pp.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thylias Moss\u2019s <em>Slave Moth<\/em>: Liberatory Verse Narrative and Performance Art.\u201d<em> Slavery and <\/em><em>the Post-Black Imagination<\/em>. Eds. Bert Ashe and Ilka Saal. U Washington P, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn Angry, Mixed Race Cosmopolitanism: Race, Privilege, Poetic Identity, and Community in Natasha Trethewey\u2019s <em>Beyond Katrina<\/em> and <em>Thrall<\/em>.\u201d <em>New Cosmopolitanisms, Race and Ethnicity: Cultural Perspectives<\/em>. Eds. Ewa Barbara Luzcak, Anna Pochmara and Samir Dayal. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. 254-274.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrenda Marie Osbey\u2019s Black Internationalism.\u201d <em>Diasporas, Cultures of Mobilities, &#8216;Race&#8217; 3: African Americans, &#8216;Race&#8217; and Diaspora<\/em>. Montpellier: PULM, 2015 (Rpt. in <em>Summoning Our Saints: The Poetry and Prose of Brenda Marie Osbey<\/em>. Lexington Books, 2019)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWanda Coleman\u2019s \u2018Retro Rogue Anthology\u2019 in <em>Mercurochrome.\u201d Hecate<\/em> Focus Section: Wanda Coleman. 40.1 (2014): 97-115.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRe-Reading Trethewey through Mixed Race Studies.\u201d Special Issue on Natasha Trethewey, ed. Joan Wylie Hall. <em>The Southern Quarterly: A Journal of Arts and Letters in the South <\/em>50.4 (Summer 2013): 123-152.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"color: #000000\">Selected Recent Papers\/Keynotes Presented at Conferences:<\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;Ekphrasis Performing Protest: Crossing Genre Borders and Embodying Black Subjectivity in Claudia Rankine\u2019s\u00a0<em>Citizen: An American Lyric.&#8221; <\/em>MESEA Conference. Pyla, Cyprus, May 26-29, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEkphrasis as Resistance: Contemporary African American Poets\u2019 Response to Artistic Monuments.\u201d Nordic Association for American Studies Conference. Bergen, Norway. April 25-27, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlying Home? Race, Identity, and Transnational Kinship in Contemporary Black Poetry.\u201d MESEA Conference. Graz, Austria, May 30-June 2, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Keynote Address, \u201cSlave Moth: Research, Poetry, and New Ideas about Slavery.\u201d Norfolk State University Undergraduate Research Conference, March 21, 2018<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfropolitanism.\u201d Workshop panelist, The Collegium for African American Research Conference, Mal\u00e0ga, Spain, June 13-16, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Keynote Address, \u201cCosmopolitan Practices in Contemporary African American Poetry: Ekphrasis in Yusef Komunyakaa\u2019s and Natasha Trethewey\u2019s Work.\u201d Sixth Annual International Conference on English and American Literature: \u201cCosmopolitanism, Individual and Community.\u201d Shanghai International Studies University, April 20-21, 2017<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecoming a Minority Cosmopolitan: Reading Natasha Trethewey\u2019s Mixed Race Identity from <em>Beyond Katrina<\/em> to <em>Thrall.<\/em>\u201d MESEA Conference. Warsaw, Poland, June 22-24, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Politics of Memorializing Family and Place: The Poetry of Natasha Trethewey and the Photography of LaToya Ruby Frazier.\u201d The Collegium for African American Research Conference, Liverpool, UK, June 24-27, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWanda Coleman\u2019s \u2018Retro Rogue Anthology\u2019 in <em>Mercurochrome<\/em>.\u201d Roundtable, \u201cRemembering \u2013 and Not Forgetting \u2013 Wanda Coleman.\u201d Modern Language Association Convention, Vancouver, BC, January 6-11, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Opening Keynote Address, \u201cThe Poetry of Wanda Coleman and Natasha Trethewey.\u201d Polish Association of American Studies. University of Bialystok, Poland. Oct 22-24, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Crossing Race and Class: Natasha Trethewey\u2019s Mixed Race Interrogations in <em>Beyond Katrina.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>MESEA conference. Saarbr\u00fccken, Germany, May 28-31, 2014.<\/p>\n<h4>Selected Invited Presentations:<\/h4>\n<p>\u201cNellie McKay and the Art of Mentoring.\u201d Modern Language Association Conference. Philadelphia, PA, Dec 27-30, 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Nellie McKay and Black Women&#8217;s Studies: A Symposium. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, WI, April 1, 2006.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"color: #000000\">Selected Grants:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Fellowship, 2000<\/li>\n<li>Undergraduate Research Initiative Grant, UNC General Administration, 2006-07<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Courses Taught:<\/h3>\n<p>Graduate:<br \/>Contemporary Black Poetry and Visual Art; African American Poetics; Teaching African American Literature; Contemporary African American Poetry (1980s-1990s); Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes; Twentieth-Century African American Poetics; Rita Dove; African American Literary Theory and Criticism; Modernist American Poetry; Major Black Poets; Introduction to English Studies.<\/p>\n<p>Undergraduate:<br \/>African American Poetry; Oprah&#8217;s Books; Major American Author&#8211;Toni Morrison; Modern American Literature&#8211;1920 to present; American Literature survey ENGL 3300; Black Women Writers; Approaches to Literature ENGL 3100; Three African American Women Writers; Twentieth-Century Black Poetry and Drama; Twentieth-Century British and American Literature.<\/p>\n<p>Honors College:<br \/>Inquiry Into the Visual Arts; Reading in Slow Motion<\/p>\n<h3>Professional Appointments<\/h3>\n<h4>Faculty Appointments:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>English Department\n<ul>\n<li>Professor, 2007-present<\/li>\n<li>Associate Professor, 1998-2007<\/li>\n<li>Assistant Professor, 1992-1998<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Affiliate Faculty, Africana Studies Department, 1992-present<\/li>\n<li>Adjunct Faculty, Women&#8217;s and Gender Studies, 2009-present<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Administrative Appointments:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Dean, Honors College, 2022 to present<\/li>\n<li>Executive Director, Honors College, 2012 to 2022<\/li>\n<li>Chair, English Department, 2007-2012<\/li>\n<li>Interim Chair, Africana Studies Department, 2006-2007<\/li>\n<li>English Learning Community Founder &amp; Coordinator, 2005-2007<\/li>\n<li>Undergraduate Coordinator, English Department, 1999-2003<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Awards<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cOutstanding Faculty Member,\u201d Student Support Services (TRIO), 2001<\/li>\n<li>\u201cOutstanding Mentor,\u201d Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program, 1995 and 1997<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education Ph.D., English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992Minor: Afro-American Studies B.A., English and Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1984, with distinction Areas of Interest My research and teaching interests lie in African American and American literature, especially contemporary Black poetry. 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