Faculty: Tyler T. Schmidt

Academic Interests: African American literature; race and sexuality studies; American poetry; rhetoric and composition; critical pedagogy
Publications:
- Schmidt, T. T. (Lecture). (Feb. 15, 2012). War City: Gwendolyn Brooks, Edwin Denby, and the poetics of sexual containment. Arts and Humanities Works-in-Progress Series. Bronx, NY: Lehman College.
- Schmidt, T. T. (Presentation). (May 9, 2012). The ‘Night Blooming’ of Robert Hayden: Queer poetics and reticent regionalism, at Queer Places, Practices, and Lives Conference. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University.
- Desegregating Desire: Race and Sexuality in Cold War American Literatue (University Press of Mississippi, Fall 2013).
- "Subjectivities-in-Process: Writing Race and the Online Discussion Board." Radical Teacher. 90 (Spring 2011): 36-46.
- "White Pervert: Tracing Integration's Queer Desire in African American Novels of the 1950s," Women's Studies Quarterly 35 (2007)
- "'in the glad flesh of my fear': Corporeal Inscription in Richard Bruce Nugent's Geisha Man," African American Review 40 (2006)
- "'womanish and wily': "The Poetry of Wanda Coleman," Obsidian III 6 (2005)
Grants and Awards:
- PSC-CUNY grant: "Karl Priebe, Dudley Huppler and the Practices of Queer Regionalism" (2013-2014)
- Summer scholar, NEH "Making Modernism" institute (June-July 2013)
- George N. Shuster Fellowship, Lehman College (June 2011-May 2012)
- Faculty Recognition Award in Teaching, Division of Arts and Humanities, Lehman College (May 2011)
- Faculty Publications Program Fellowship, City University of New York (January 2011—May 2011)
- Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, Center for Humanities, The Graduate Center, CUNY (Sept. 2009—May 2010)
Last modified: Apr 30, 2013

