Melanie A Marotta, PhD (she/her) | College of William and Mary (original) (raw)
My research focuses on 19/20/21st century American Literature (incl. African American), 21st century Young Adult literature, Science Fiction, Gothic Studies, transgender literature, the American West, and women's studies. I have written about the slave narrative/neo-slave narrative, cyberpunk, and the Western, concentrating primarily on female characters and the impact of the community on identity formation.
The research that I complete is an extension of my dissertation, The Impact of Rural and Urban Areas on the Female Characters in the Works of Toni Cade Bambara, Gayl Jones, and Toni Morrison. My BAH in English was awarded by the University of Guelph (Canada) in Literature.
My monograph, African American Adolescent Female Heroes: The Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Neo-Slave Narrative, has been published by the UP of Mississippi as part of the Children's Literature Association's series (2023).
https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/African-American-Adolescent-Female-Heroes
Out now: “The Inclusive Young Adult Reimagining and Adaptation: Renee Ahdieh’s Vampires and L. L. McKinney’s Alice for an Adolescent Audience,” The Lion and the Unicorn, 7.2 (2023), pp. 167-185. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/924068
Critical Pedagogy: Diversity, Inclusion, and the Visual in Higher Education (collection co-edited with Susan Flynn) published by Routledge (Dec. 2021).
Women's Space: Essays on Female Characters in the 21st Century Science Fiction Western, edited by Melanie A. Marotta, McFarland, 2019. (ISBN: 9781476676609).
ORCID: 0000-0003-0086-2295
For more, see my interview with the Chasing Leviathan podcast available on major streaming platforms and YouTube: https://youtu.be/HUE5jwap5vA?si=SJmETdO48ss-9mKd
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