Sami Schalk Explained

Education:BA in English, Women's Studies, Miami University, 2008MFA in Creative Writing, University of Notre Dame, 2010Ph.D. in Gender Studies, Indiana University, 2014
Occupation:professor, academic
Website:https://samischalk.com/

Sami Schalk is an associate professor in the Department of Gender & Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[1] She was previously an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University at Albany, SUNY.

In 2019 she started the campaign #twerkwithlizzo, combining fun with larger issues relating to racism, sexism and fatphobia as a form of "pleasure activism". Her twerking with Lizzo went viral.[2]

Cultural significance

Schalk twerked with Lizzo onstage on October 10, 2019.[3] She twerked onstage with Janelle Monáe on the Age of Pleasure tour in Indianapolis, Indiana, on September 10, 2023.[4] She talked with Jonathan Van Ness on his Getting Curious podcast in an episode from October 26, 2022, about Black disability politics.[5]

Education

Schalk received her B.A. in English & Women's Studies in 2008, with a minor in Disability Studies, from Miami University, and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame in 2010. She received her PhD in Gender Studies from Indiana University in 2014.

Awards

Publications

Schalk has published numerous journal articles,[8] [9] [10] book chapters,[11] [12] essays,[13] reviews,[14] and popular articles.[15] [16] In 2018, she published a monograph titled Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction.[17] In 2022, she published the book Black Disability Politics.[18] It is also available online through open access downloads from the publisher.[19] Her books were published through Duke University Press.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sami Schalk . 2022-10-28 . Disability Studies . en-US.
  2. Web site: Miller . Jeff . Spring 2020 . The Professor Who Twerked with Lizzo On Wisconsin . 2023-11-13 . en-US.
  3. Web site: Schalk . Sami . October 18, 2019 . When I twerked onstage with Lizzo, it was an act of political defiance . Vox.
  4. Web site: https://twitter.com/DrSamiSchalk/status/1701205507124416532?s=20 . 2023-09-24 . X (formerly Twitter) . en.
  5. Web site: 2022-10-26 . What's At The Heart Of Black Disability Politics? with Professor Sami Schalk - Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness . 2023-09-24 . Jonathan Van Ness . en.
  6. Web site: 2021-09-16 . Associate Professor Sami Schalk recipient of UW System Outstanding Women of Color Award . 2023-11-25 . Gender & Women's Studies . en-US.
  7. Web site: 2019-08-16 . GWS Professor Sami Schalk Awarded OutReach LGBTQ Advocate of the Year . 2023-11-25 . Gender & Women's Studies . en-US.
  8. Schalk, Sami. “De-politicized Diversity in the American Girl Brand” Research on Diversity in Youth Literature 2.2 (2020). Article 7.
  9. Schalk, Sami. “Strategic Alterations and Afro-Asian Connections in Paul Beatty’s Tuff.” Mosaic. 51.1 (2018). 55-70.
  10. Schalk, Sami. “BeForever?: Disability in American Girl Historical Fiction.” Children’s Literature. 45 (2017) 164-187.
  11. Schalk, Sami. “Teaching the Social Construction of Disability through the Work of Octavia E. Butler.” Approaches to Teaching Octavia E. Butler. ed. Tarshia Stanley. ModernLanguage Association of America Press, 2019. 97-102
  12. Schalk, Sami. “Resisting Erasure and Conflation: Reading Race and (Dis)ability in Speculative Media.” Routledge Companion to Disability and Media. eds. Haller, Goggin, and Ellis. London: Routledge UP, 2019. 137-146.
  13. Schalk, Sami. “Foreword to the Special Issue on Disability Studies: Bodyminds, Science Fiction and Disability Studies” Journal of Science Fiction. 3.2 (2019): 10-11.
  14. Schalk, Sami. “Review of Barriers and Belongings: Personal Narratives of Disability” The ALH Online Review. Series XI. 2017. n. pag. Web.
  15. “Lowbrow Culture and Guilty Pleasures? The Performance and Harm of Academic Elitism” Inside Higher Ed. February 2019. https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2019/02/22/professor-asks-who-arbiter-lowbrow-scholarly-interests-and-pursuits
  16. Schalk, Sami. “A Call-In To White Feminists About "Surviving R. Kelly." BUST.com.January 2019. https://bust.com/feminism/195546-surviving-r-kelly-call-in.html
  17. Web site: March 2018 . Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction . Duke University Press.
  18. Book: Schalk, Sami . Black Disability Politics . 2022-10-31 . 10.1215/9781478027003 . 978-1-4780-9268-1 . 252170711 . en.
  19. Web site: 2022-10-25 . Scholar Sami Schalk Seeks To Merge The Worlds Of Black Activism And Disability Advocacy With Her New Book . 2023-11-10 . Essence . en-US.

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