Faculty - Tyler T. Schmidt
E-mail Address: tyler.schmidt@lehman.cuny.edu
Phone Number: 718-960-8529
Office: Carman Hall, Room 397
Office Hours: Tuesday 1:00-2:00PM, and by appointment
Rank: Associate Professor
Degrees and Sources of Degrees: B.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison; M.A., Teacher's College, Columbia University.; Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center
Academic Interests
- African American literature; race and sexuality studies; American poetry; rhetoric and composition; critical pedagogy
Publications
- Desegregating Desire: Race and Sexuality in Cold War American Literature (University Press of Mississippi, Fall 2013).
- "Subjectivities-in-Process: Writing Race and the Online Discussion Board." Radical Teacher. 90 (Spring 2011): 36-46.
- "White Pervert: Tracing Integration's Queer Desire in African American Novels of the 1950s," Women's Studies Quarterly 35 (2007)
- "'in the glad flesh of my fear': Corporeal Inscription in Richard Bruce Nugent'sGeisha Man," African American Review 40 (2006)
- "'womanish and wily': "The Poetry of Wanda Coleman," Obsidian III 6 (2005)
Grants and Awards
- PSC-CUNY grant: "Karl Priebe, Dudley Huppler and the Practices of Queer Regionalism" (2013-2014)
- Summer scholar, NEH "Making Modernism" Institute (June-July 2013)
- George N. Shuster Fellowship, Lehman College (June 2011-May 2012)
- Faculty Recognition Award in Teaching, Division of Arts and Humanities, Lehman College (May 2011)
- Faculty Publications Program Fellowship, City University of New York (January 2011—May 2011)
- Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, Center for Humanities, The Graduate Center, CUNY (Sept. 2009—May 2010)
