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Main Office Location:
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Lynette Myles
Instructor
Ph.D. English ASU, M.A. English ASU

Office: LL 172A
Phone: (480)727-9128
Email: lynette.myles@asu.edu

Lynette Myles     Lynette D. Myles received her MA in English from Arizona State University and her PhD in English from Arizona State University specializing in African American Literature.  During her graduate studies, she was awarded the Division of Graduate Studies Dissertation Fellowship at Arizona State University for her scholarly promise and outstanding dissertation research.  Her research interests are interdisciplinary: nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American literature; slave narratives; African American women’s writing and feminist practice; African American drama; discourse and representations of race, gender, class, and sexuality; border crossings, and spatial studies. 

     Her publishing include At the Crossroads of Black Female Autonomy, Or Digression as Resistance in Quicksand and The Street” (2005), and “AFH 394: (Un)Ruly Voices of African American Women: Engendering and Reclaiming Black Female Realities at Arizona State University” (2006 paper; book chapter forthcoming 2007).  She is currently working on a book manuscript, Shifting Identities: Transformative Black Women in Paradoxical Spaces, which examines further questions in her study of black women’s autonomy in hegemony’s space. 

     Her teaching and research interests reflect her serving a diverse community of students. Her teaching areas include African American literature, black women’s writings, and First Year Writing Composition. She developed the course "Unruly Voices of African American Women" for African and African American Studies Program that has been cross-listed with Departments of English, Women and Gender Studies, Sociology, Humanities, and Political Science. For her commitment to teaching excellence and mentoring, she was nominated for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Distinguished Teaching Award at Arizona State University in 2005.

Courses Taught

ENG 101                      First Year Writing Composition

ENG 102                      First Year Writing Composition

ENG 353                      African American Literature: Beginnings Through the Harlem Renaissance

ENG 354                      African American Literature: Harlem Renaissance to the Present

AFH/ENG 394             Unruly Voices of African American Women: Pre-Harlem Renaissance 

AFH/ENG 394              Unruly Voices of African American Women: Post-Harlem Renaissance. 

AFH/ENG 394              Unruly Voices of African American Women: Post-Harlem Renaissance

UNI 100                      Academic Success at the University

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