Rebecca Wanzo

Rebecca Wanzo

Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
African and African-American Studies, Courtesy Affiliation
American Culture Studies, Courtesy Affiliation
English, Courtesy Affiliation
Film and Media Studies, Courtesy Affiliation
PhD, Duke University
BA, Miami University
research interests:
  • African American literature history and culture
  • Theories of affect
  • Popular culture
  • Critical race theory
  • Feminist theory

contact info:

office hours:

  • Mondays 2:30-3:00 pm
    Wednesdays 2:30-4:00 pm
    Or By Appointment

mailing address:

  • Washington University

    MSC 1078-0137-02

    One Brookings Drive

    St. Louis, MO 63130-4899

Rebecca Wanzo is a professor of the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Rebecca Wanzo is the author of The Suffering Will Not Be Televised: African American Women and Sentimental Storytelling (SUNY, 2009) and The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging (NYU, 2020). The Content of Our Caricature won the Katherine Singer Kovac Book Prize from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the Charles Hatfield Book Prize from the Comics Studies Society, and the Best Scholarly/Academic Work from the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. Her research interests include African American literature and culture, feminist theory, cultural studies, media studies, and cartoon and comic studies. She has published essays in venues such as American Literature, Camera Obscura, differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Film Quarterly, as well as numerous other academic journals, edited collections, and popular media outlets.