Dr. Micki McElya Assistant Professor of American Studies mmcelya@bama.ua.edu (205)348-9764 Education: Bryn Mawr College (B.A.) New York University (M.A., Ph.D.) Research Focus: Late-Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Specialty Fields: Cultural History, History of Women and Gender, History of Sexuality, Race and Culture, the U.S. South, Feminist Theory

Selected Publications

Book:

Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, October 2007).

 

Articles:

“Painter of the Right: Thomas Kinkade’s Political Art” in Alexis L. Boylan, ed., Thomas Kinkade: The Artist in the Mall, (Durham: Duke University Press, forthcoming).

 

"Commemorating the Color Line: The National Mammy Monument Controversy of the 1920s," in Cynthia Mills and Pamela H. Simpson, eds., Monuments to the Lost Cause: Women, Art and the Landscape of Southern Memory (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003): 203-218.

"Trashing the Presidency: Race, Class and the Clinton/Lewinsky Affair," in Lauren Berlant and Lisa Duggan, eds., Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and the National Interest (New York: New York University Press, 2001): 156-174.