Rebecca Wanzo
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Rebecca Wanzo's Degrees
- PhD English University of California, Berkeley
- Masters English University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors English Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Rebecca Ann Wanzo is an American academic specializing in African-American literature and culture, critical race theory, fan studies, and feminist theory. She is a professor and chair of the women, gender, and sexuality studies department at Washington University in St. Louis. Wanzo's 2020 book, The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging, won the Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work.
Rebecca Wanzo's Published Works
Published Works
- Precarious-Girl Comedy: Issa Rae, Lena Dunham, and Abjection Aesthetics (2016) (52)
- African American acafandom and other strangers: New genealogies of fan studies (2015) (50)
- The Era of Lost (White) Girls: On Body and Event (2008) (24)
- Wearing Hero-Face : Black Citizens and Melancholic Patriotism in Truth: Red, White, and Black (2009) (20)
- Black Love is Not a Fairytale (2011) (16)
- Beyond a ‘Just’ Syntax: Black Actresses, Hollywood and Complex Personhood (2006) (9)
- The Superhero: Meditations on Surveillance, Salvation, and Desire (2009) (7)
- Apocalyptic Empathy: A Parable of Postmodern Sentimentality (2005) (6)
- Keyword 2 (2019) (4)
- Quiet As It's Kept: Shame, Trauma, and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison (review) (2000) (4)
- Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism; Rhetorical Occasions: Essays on Humans and the Humanities (2010) (3)
- Precarious-Girl Comedy (2019) (3)
- The Content of Our Caricature (2020) (3)
- Identity Temporalities and American Born Chinese (2020) (2)
- Pop Culture/Visual Culture (2016) (1)
- The Normative Broken: Melinda Gebbie, Feminist Comix, and Child Sexuality Temporalities (2018) (1)
- Proms and Other Racial Ephemera: The Positive Social Construction of African Americans in the “Post”-Civil Rights Era (2010) (1)
- Against Proper Affective Objects (2009) (1)
- The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects; The End of Dissatisfaction? Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment (2006) (1)
- What If No One Is There to Care? Dementia’s Narrative Demands (2022) (0)
- When Testimony Fails (2009) (0)
- BOOK REVIEW:Michelle M. Wright. BECOMING BLACK: CREATING IDENTITY IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA. Durham: Duke UP, 2004 (2005) (0)
- Identity Remakes in and out of Time (2022) (0)
- Black Slaver: Jack Johnson and the Mann Act (2019) (0)
- Black Obliteration around the Corner (2021) (0)
- Precarious-Girl Comedy: (2020) (0)
- Moten’s magical meditations: Black ontology and genealogies of hope (2020) (0)
- Things You Can Tell by Looking (2022) (0)
- 13. Finding Archives/Making Archives: (2010) (0)
- Introduction to Feminist Formations Special Issue: Feminists Interrogate States of Emergency (2013) (0)
- Resisting the Revolutionary Call (2022) (0)
- The Unspeakable Speculative, Spoken (2019) (0)
- The Cosby Lament: Rape, Marital Alibis, and Black Iconicity (2018) (0)
- Chapter 10. Whoopi Goldberg in Hollywood: Queering Comic Genre Genealogies (2017) (0)
- Announcements (2004) (0)
- Taylor Sheridan Is Sorry but His Characters Are Not (2022) (0)
- How Long, Not Long (2021) (0)
- Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora (review) (2005) (0)
- National Fantasies about the Self (2021) (0)
- 5. Black Nationalism, Bunraku, and Beyond: (2010) (0)
- The Perverse Gaze of Sympathy: Sadomasochistic Sentiments from "Clarissa" to "Rescue 911.", and: The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature (review) (2001) (0)
- Sentimental Solidarities (2021) (0)
- THE AFRICAN DIASPORA: AUTOBIOGRAPHIES THEORIZING 'IN- (2013) (0)
- Archiving Cartoons as Black Intellectual Thought (2022) (0)
- The Freedom to Remember: Narrative, Slavery, and Gender in Contemporary Black Women's Fiction, and: Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony (review) (2004) (0)
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