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Sami Schalk is an assistant professor of Gender & Women's Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She earned her BA in English(creative writing) and Women's Studies from Miami University in 2008, her MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from University of Notre Dame in 2010, and her PhD in Gender Studies from Indiana University in 2014. Her research focuses on disability, race, and gender in contemporary American literature and culture, especially African American speculative fiction, feminist literature. Schalk's published her first book "Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction in 2018. In Bodyminds reimagined Schalk argues that that black women writers of speculative fiction reimagine the possibilities and limits of bodyminds, changing the way we read like (dis)ability, race, gender and sexuality in the context of non-realist text.

Biography
Sami Schalk identifies as a fat, femme, black, queer, cisgender, nondisabled, middle-class, body-positive, intersectional feminist woman.

Books
"Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction. Duke University Press, 2018.

Publications
• Schalk, Sami and Jina B. Kim. “Integrating Race, Transforming Feminist Disability Studies” [accepted in Signs]

• “Wounded Warriors of the Future: Disability Hierarchy in Avatar and Source Code” [accepted in Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies]

• “Strategic Alterations and Afro-Asian Connections in Paul Beatty’s Tuff.” Mosaic. 51.1 (2018). 55-70.

• “Experience, Research, and Writing: Octavia E. Butler as an Author of Disability Literature.” Palimpsest. 6.2 (2017): 51-75.

• “Interpreting Disability Metaphor and Race in Octavia E. Butler's ‘The Evening and the Morning and the Night.’” African American Review. 50.2 (2017) 139-151.

• “BeForever?: Disability in American Girl Historical Fiction.” Children’s Literature. 45 (2017) 164-187.

• “Happily Ever After for Whom?: Blackness and Disability in Romance Narratives.” Journal of Popular Culture. 49.6 (2016) 1249-1260.

• “Ablenationalism in American Girlhood.” Girlhood Studies. 9.1 (2016). 36-52. “Reevaluating the Supercrip.” Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies. 10.1 (2016) 71-86.

• “Transing: Resistance to Eugenic Ideology in Nella Larsen’s Passing." Journal of Modern Literature. 38.2 (2015) 148-161. Schalk CV 2

• “Metaphorically Speaking: Disability Metaphors in Feminist Writing.” Disability Studies Quarterly. 33.4 (2013): n. pag.

• “Coming to Claim Crip: Disidentification with/in Disability Studies.” Disability Studies Quarterly. 33.2 (2013): n. pag.

•“Self, Other, Other-Self: Going Beyond the Self/Other Binary in Contemporary Consciousness.” Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology. 2.1 (2011). 197-210.

•“What Makes Mr. Hyde So Scary?: Disability as a Result of Evil and Cause of Fear.” Disability Studies Quarterly. 28.4 (2008): n. pag.

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