Tracey L. Walters is Associate Professor of Literature and Chair of the Department of Africana Studies at Stony Brook University where she also holds an affiliate appointment with the Department of English and Comparative Literature. Dr. Walters works in the areas of African American Women’s Literature Black British literature. She has published a number of articles on the subject of African Diasporic Women’s literature and three books: African American Women and the Classicists Tradition: Black Women Writers from Wheatley to Morrison (2007), Today's Writers and Their Works: Zadie Smith (2013), and edited the collection Zadie Smith: Critical Essays (2008). Walters is currently completing a project on the representation of the domestic worker in visual art, film, and literature.

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