Associate Professor

British, Irish, and Global 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: Parish Library B01-CU18

Biography

Dr. Belinda Deneen Wallace earned her PhD from the University of Maryland at College Park. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, where she also serves as the Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in English. Additionally, Dr. Wallace is the Director of the Liberal Arts and Integrative Studies Program. In the English Department, she teaches classes on Contemporary Caribbean Literature(s) and Poetry, Critical Literary Analysis, Global Black Speculative Fiction, and Queer, Intersectional, and Black Feminist Studies. A postcolonialist whose research is rooted in intersectionality, new historicism, and cultural semiotics, her writings have appeared in a number of journals, including PMLA, Small Axe, Cultural Dynamics, Journal of Canadian Studies, Caribbean Quarterly, and Radical Teacher. She is the recipient of the 2022 Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality Best Article Award. Presently, she is completing a single authored manuscript and an edited collection.