Kimberly Wallace-Sanders
Associate Professor of the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts
and Women's Studies
kwalla2@emory.edu

Kimberly Wallace-Sanders is a graduate of Brown University’s MFA Program in English and Creative Writing and she holds a doctorate from Boston University in American Studies.  From 1993 to 1999 she served as Assistant Director of the Women's Research and Resource Center at Spelman College, where she co-founded the Comparative Women’s Studies Program with Beverly Guy-Sheftall.

       Professor Wallace- Sanders is currently an Associate Professor at Emory University in the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts and in the Institute for Women’s Studies where she teaches courses on race and contemporary feminisms, race, gender and visual culture, the black female body and African American women’s cultural studies.

       Her most recent work appears in Burning Down the House: Recycling Domesticity, The Teacher’s Body: Embodiment, Identity and Authority in the Academy, Black Womanhood: Icons, Images, and Ideologies of the African Body and Mediated Women: Representations in Popular Culture.

       Professor Wallace-Sanders’s edited volume Skin Deep. Spirit Strong: Critical Essays on the Black Female Body in American Culture (University of Michigan Press, 2002) was nominated for the 2003 NAACP Image Award for Literature.  Her book Mammy: A Century of Race Gender and Southern Memory (University of Michigan Press, 2008) won the Provost Manuscript Development Award at Emory University.