Sami Schalk Public Lecture, "More than a Metaphor: Disability in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction"

Professor Sami Schalk is an Assistant Professor of English at University at Albany, State University of New York, she specializes in gender studies, disability studies, African American literature, and contemporary literature.

Sami Schalk joined the faculty at University at Albany in 2014 after receiving her PhD in Gender Studies at Indiana University. Her research focuses on the representation of disability in contemporary African American literature. Sami is an active member of the Society for Disability Studies and the National Women’s Studies Association. She is also a poet and Cave Canem fellow. In 2013, Sami was the recipient of an American Association of University Women dissertation fellowship.