Dr. Judith Irwin Madera
Assistant Professor of English
Contact
Office: C209 Tribble Hall
Phone: (336) 758-3911
Email: maderaji@wfu.edu
Degrees
PhD City University of New York
MPhil City University of New York
BA University of Connecticut
Areas of Interest
- Race and creolization
- Caribbean literature
- Literature of the Americas
- Colonialism
- Environmental ethics and ecological theory
Courses Taught at Wake Forest
ENG 702 Colony, Nation, Empire: Studies in Early American Literature
ENG 381 The Black Atlantic
ENG 381 African American Literature
ENG 302 Literature and Ecology
ENG 300 American Environments: Hemispheric American Literature and Theory
ENG 175 Studies in American Literature
ENG 111 Writing Seminar: Dreams and Presence
Selected Publications
“Floating Prisons: Dispossession, Ordering, and Colonial Atlantic ‘States,’ 1776-1783” in Buried Lives: Incarcerated in Early America. eds. Michele Lise Tarter and Richard Bell. University of Georgia Press, 2012.
“The Standardized Curriculum and De-Localization: Obstacles to Critical Pedagogy.” (co-author with D.E. Mulcahy)Radical History Review, 102 (Fall 2008): 201-213.
“American Heteroglossia: Open-Cell Regionalism and the New Orleans Short Fiction of Alice Dunbar Nelson.” Discourse, 29.1 (Winter 2007): 120-139.
“James McCune Smith: The Communipaw Connection.” Nineteenth-Century Prose, Volume 31, Nos. 1 / 2 (Fall 2007): 349-358.
Reviews and essays in the Journal of American History (March 2009); The World of Frederick Douglass, 1818-1895.Eds. Paul Finkelman and L. Diane Barnes. New York: Oxford University Press.