New Faculty for Fall 2009
Marlo David
Assistant ProfessorEnglish/Women's Studies, HEAV
mdavid@purdue.edu
Marlo D. David is an assistant professor of English and Women's Studies and does research in 20th-century African-American literature and culture, African diaspora literatures, and gender and sexuality studies. Her current project - Mama's Gun: Transgressive Narratives of Race, Gender, and Nation - is a study of post Civil Rights era representations of black mothers and motherhood in literature and film. Marlo earned her doctorate in English from the University of Florida. Her master's degree is in Liberal Studies from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, where she concentrated on folklore and oral culture in black women's fiction. She received her bachelor's degree in newspaper journalism from Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida. After nine years as a reporter and editor for a number of newspapers, including The New York Times Company, the San Jose Mercury News and the Orlando Sentinel, she enrolled in graduate school at the University of Florida. Her academic research concentrates on the rich lives and literature of contemporary black women, but she also frequently writes about intersections between popular culture and politics. Her essays have appeared in The African American Review, Home Girls Make Some Noise: A Hip Hop Feminist Anthology, and Black Woman & Child. She is also a contributor to The Griot, a multimedia online news site. She lives in Lafayette with her two sons.
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