Anissa Wardi, Ph.D.

• Buhl Professor, 2004-2005, MLA First Book Nominee, 2005, Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 2004, 2005, Central Research Fund Grant, 1999, 2006, Member, Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi

ORGANIZATIONS

• The Toni Morrison Society, Modern Language Association (MLA)

CERTIFICATIONS

• Women's Studies, Syracuse University, 1999

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Water and African American Memory: An Ecocritical Perspective, Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2011
• "The Cartography of Memory: An Ecocritical Reading of Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo" (forthcoming, African American Review).
• "Currents of Memory: Ancestral Waters in Henry Dumas's 'Ark of Bones' and August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean," (forthcoming, ISLE),
• "Memories of Home: Reading the Bedouin in Arab American Literature." Ethnic Studies Review. Vol 31.1 (2008): 65-79. (Co-authored with Katharine Wardi- Zonna).
• "In Passing: Arab American Poetry and the Politics of Race." Ethnic Studies Review. Vol 28.2 (2005): 17-36. (Co-authored with Katherine Wardi- Zonna)
• 'Death and the Arc of Mourning in African American Literature, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003
• “Jazz Funerals and Mourning Songs: Toni Morrison’s Call to the Ancestors.” Toni Morrison and the Bible. 2006
• "Freak Shows, Spectacles and Carnivals: Reading Jonathan Demme's Beloved." African American Review 39.4 (2005): 513-526
• African American Literature, Penguin Academic Series,' 2004. Co-editor with Keith Gilyard.
• “A Laying On of Hands: Toni Morrison and the Materiality of Love.” MELUS. 30.3 (2005): 201-218
• “Divergent Paths to the South: Echoes of Cane in Mama Day.” Gloria Naylor: Strategy and Technique, Magic and Myth. 2001.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

• "'Loud with the presence of plants and field life': The Ecology of Resistance in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby." American Literature Association Symposium on American Fiction 1890 to the Present. (Savannah, Georgia) October 2009.
• “Between Breath and Death: Waters of the Diaspora in Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby.” Toni Morrison and Modernism Conference (Charleston, S.C. ) July 2008,
• “Freak Shows, Spectacles and Carnivals: Reading Jonathan Demme’s Beloved.” Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, (Pittsburgh, PA.) March 2004
• “Oprah Loves This Book: Toni Morrison, Pop Culture and the Politics of Reading.” Third Biennial Toni Morrison Conference: Toni Morrison and the Politics of Learning, Washington, D.C. (June 2003)
• “Graveyard Dust: The Embodied South in Cane.” Invited Symposium Speaker. Martin Puryear: The Cane Project. Temple University Gallery, (Philadelphia, PA. )November 2001.
• “The Journey Back Home: Narratives of Dis/Placement in Cane and Jazz.” Second Biennial Toni Morrison Conference: Toni Morrison and the Meaning of Home, (Lorain, OH) September 2000.,
• “Memories of Sugarcane: Eulogizing the South in Song of Solomon.” Women Writers of Color Conference, (Ocean City, MD) 1999.