Trimiko Melancon
Dr. Trimiko Melancon earned her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She specializes in African American literature and culture, with a particular concentration in twentieth-century black women’s literature and feminist theory. Her teaching and scholarly interests lie primarily in African American and American literature and culture; critical race, gender, and sexuality studies; and African American and Black German Studies.
In addition to having been a J. William Fulbright Scholar of American Literature and American Studies in Berlin, Germany, she has also received other grants and fellowships that have facilitated the continued support of her interdisciplinary research and teaching: from the Andrew W. Mellon, Woodrow Wilson, and Nellie Mae Foundations, as well as the Social Science Research Council. She is currently working on her book manuscript Unbought and Unbossed: Transgressive Black Women and the Politics of Representation.