Associate Professor

British and Irish Literary Studies

Associate Chair for Graduate Studies

Research Areas

Intersectionality; Afrofuturism; Contemporary Caribbean Literature and Culture; Postcolonial Studies; Black Transatlantic; Afro-Diasporic and Afro-Latinx Studies; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; New Historicism; and Queer Theory.

Contact Information

Email: bwallace@unm.edu
Office Location: Humanities 229 & 376

Biography

Belinda Deneen Wallace is an Associate Professor at the University of New Mexico in the Department of English Language and Literature, where she teaches courses in Afrofuturism, Contemporary Caribbean Literature and Culture, Afro-Diaspora and Afro-Latinx Studies, Postcolonial Literature(s), and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her research is rooted in intersectionality and critical race theory and her writings have appeared in Cultural Dynamics; Journal of Canadian Studies; Women, Gender and Families of Color; and ProudFlesh: New Afrikan Journal of Culture, Politics, and Consciousness. Dr. Wallace is presently completing her first manuscript, which queers literary reimaginings of Caribbean slave rebellions, political revolutions, and socio-cultural resistance movements through an examination of historiographic metafiction.