Sandra Gunning

A member of the Feminist Studies editorial collective since Spring 1996, Sandra Gunning is Associate Professor of English and American Culture at the University of Michigan where she holds appointments and serves on major committees in the Program in American Culture, the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, and the Department of English Language and Literature and is affiliated with the Women’s Studies Program.

Recent publications include Dialogues of Dispersal: Gender, Sexuality, and African Diasporas (Blackwell, 2004) and Rape, Race, and Lynching: The Red Record of American Literature, 1890-1912 (Oxford University Press, 1996), winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Book and Gustavus Meyers Award.

In acknowledgement of her strengths as a scholar and teacher, Professor Gunning has been recognized with the Michigan Humanities Award and the Julia Lockwood Research Fellowship.