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.