Welcome to the website for Dr. Sami Schalk, Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Learn more about Dr. Schalk, her work, and her speaking engagements by using the menu links above.
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Access Copies
Links for access copies to talks will be listed here around the date of the event. If you are looking for a copy of a previous talk that has already been removed, you can request a copy here
WakandaCon Imagining Inclusive Futures Panel: Panelist Remarks and WakandaCon Panel Reading List
News
Over the weekend I had the incredible privilege to attend and present at the first annual WakandaCon in Chicago. It was a magical black cultural event that centered accessibility and inclusion. Check out this article, with a quote from yours truly, about the event. Access copies of my panel remarks and my panel's collective recommended reading list are still available on my website (samischalk.com).
www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/wakandacon-black-panther-wakanda-afrofuturism/Content?oid=55010118
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It was a celebration for nerds of all kinds.Another review of Bodyminds Reimagined, from African American Intellectual History Society’s Black Perspectives blog!
“Schalk’s Bodyminds Reimagined is a trailblazing book as the first text that earnestly considers the relationship between and representation of (dis)ability as written by Black diasporic authors”
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Disability, Race, and Gender in Speculative Fiction – AAIHS
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Disability, Race, and Gender in Speculative Fiction By Grace Gipson August 3, 2018 0 From Janelle Monae’s “Dirty Computer” (2018)“I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition t...The first academic review for Bodyminds Reimagined is out!!! Thanks so much to Anna Hinton for writing this. What a gift!
asapjournal.com/bodyminds-reimagined-disability-race-and-gender-in-black-womens-speculative-ficti...
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Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction / Anna L. Hinton August 2, 2018August 2, 2018 Anna L. Hinton Schalk, Sami. Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018....
