Patricia Rachael Stuelke
Associate Professor
Appointments
Associate Professor of English
Vice Chair, Department of English and Creative Writing
Area of Expertise
transnational and hemispheric American studies,
culture of US imperialism and neoliberalism ,
social movement literature and aesthetics ,
20th and 21st century American literature and popular culture,
gender and sexuality studies
Biography
I teach and write about 20th and 21st century hemispheric literature, photography, and popular culture, particularly in relation to histories of US imperialism, racial capitalism, gender and sexuality, and US and Latin American social movements. My first book, The Ruse of Repair, offers a history of the contemporary valorization of reparative politics and modes of interpretation, tracing them back to the practices and aesthetics of US empire and transnational solidarity movements during the transition to neoliberalism in the Americas.
Education
A.B. Harvard University
PhD Boston University
Publications
"Trayvon Martin, Topdog/Underdog, and the Tragedy Trap. American Literary History (2017).
"Loving in the Iraq War Years." College Literature 43.1 (Winter 2016): 121-144.
"The Queer Optimism of Jessie Tarbox Beals's Greenwich Village Postcards." Photography and Culture 7.3 (November 2014): 285-302.
"The Reparative Politics of Central America Solidarity Movement Culture." American Quarterly 66.3 (September 2014): 767-790.
"'Times When Greater Disciplines Are Born': The Zora Neale Hurston Revival and the Neoliberal Transformation of the Caribbean." American Literature 86.1 (March 2014): 117-145.
"Finding Haiti, Finding History in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God." Modernism/modernity 19.4 (November 2012): 755-774.
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