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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). She is currently completing her book Female Subjectivity in African American Women's Narratives of Enslavement. This project examines writings by African American women to demonstrate journeys many Black women take to gain independence from subjugating circumstances. The book is contracted with Palgrave Macmillan. 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 2008 and 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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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.