Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Noelle Morrissette

Professor, Department of English

Email: namorris@uncg.edu
Phone: 336.334.5311
Website
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Appointed through Spring 2028

Noelle Morrissette writes about African American narrative, poetics, and expressive culture. Her monograph, James Weldon Johnson’s Modern Soundscapes (University of Iowa Press, 2013) investigates how the author’s literary representations of the extremes of sonic experience—functioning either as cultural violence or creative force—draw attention to the mutual contingencies and the interdependence of American and African American cultures. Her new book project, “Anne Spencer: Letters and Legacy,” for which she received the 2013-2014 Linda Arnold Carlisle Research Award, positions poet Anne Spencer at the center of the New Negro Renaissance of the 1920s, specifically arguing for an inclusive model of modernism that embraces women’s writing as central to the period’s aesthetics and politics. Morrissette teaches courses about modern and contemporary African American literary and popular culture that address violence and the modern self, inclusive of race, gender, and sexuality, and ranging from the “New Negro” era to “Post-Blackness” and “Post-Soul” studies.