Faculty

Asali Solomon
Asst. Prof. of English

Department: English
Email: solomona@wlu.edu
Phone: (540) 458-8067
Office:Payne Hall 32E
Curriculum Vitae: http://english.wlu.edu/faculty/solomon.htm
Homepage: http://english.wlu.edu/faculty/solomon.htm

Education

Ph.D., English, University of California, Berkeley (2002)
M.F.A., Fiction, University of Iowa (2004)
B.A., Pan-African Studies, Barnard College (1995)

Teaching

English 105—Composition and Literature: Individuals and Families
English 227—Contemporary American Lit: African-American Gothic
English 308—Advanced Fiction Writing
Seminar Topics
English 413—The Conscious Writer: A Fiction Workshop for Readers
English 380—African-American Women Writers and the Canon

Research

Fiction, nineteenth-and twentieth-century African-American literature, American ethnic literatures, African-American Music, Film, and Television, Literature of the Caribbean and Latin America

Recent Scholarship

Dance You into Day (stories), forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Essay. "Black Fuzzy Thing or Why You Sometimes Hate Your Hair," in Body Work: Black Women Write on the Physical Self. Ed. Ayana D. Byrd and Akiba Solomon (PenguinPutnam, forthcoming in 2005).

Other Information

Disgruntled (novel), under contract at Farrar, Straus and Giroux.