Melvin Donalson
Faculty
College of Arts and Letters
Department of English
Acting Chair
Office: E&T-A 635
Phone: (323) 343-4295
E-mail:
mdonals@calstatela.edu |
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Monday |
3:15-4:15
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Tuesday |
3:00-5:00 |
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Wednesday |
3:15-4:15
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INTRODUCTION
With an American Studies background, I have examined
the ways in which the Humanities and the Social Sciences
complement one another. My approach to education has
been to seek connections between the conventional and
the contemporary, the provincial and the progressive. My
position in the English Dept allows me to explore and
teach my interests in African American Studies, Film
Studies, Gender Studies, Popular Culture, and Creative
Writing.
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TEACHING INTERESTS
With my interdisciplinary background, I enjoy
teaching and intersecting various fields of study.
During the Winter Quarter, I will be teaching Eng 207
(Beginning Creative Writing), Eng 407 (Fiction Writing),
and Eng 507 (Graduate Seminar: Fiction Writing). In
Spring Quarter, I will be teaching Eng 327 (Ethnicity
and Emotions in U.S. Film) and Eng 379 (Gender and
Sexuality in Popular Culture).
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RESEARCH
Currently, I have been examining Race and Gender issues in American
Cinema, American Literature, and Popular Culture.
Additionally, I have been steadily working on pursuing
my poetry, fiction writing, stage plays, screenplays, and creative nonfiction.
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PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
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Title |
Date |
Essay: "African American Traditions and the American Novel," in Companion to the American Novel (Wiley-Blackwell Press) |
May 2012 |
Essay: "Denzel Washington: A Revisionist Black Masculinity," in Pretty People: Movie Stars of the 1990s (Rutger's University Press) |
March 2012 |
Novel: Communion (WingSpan Press)
(available on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com) |
January 2012 |
Book: Hip Hop in American Cinema (Peter Lang Publications)
Book: Masculinity in the Interracial Buddy
Film (McFarland & Company, Inc.,
Publishers) |
2007
2006 |
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Book: Black Directors in Hollywood
(The University of Texas Press) |
2003 |
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EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Ph.D. American Civilization June 1981
- Brown University
Providence, R.I.
M.A. American Studies December 1975
- University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa
B.A. History June 1973
- Bates College
Lewiston, Maine
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COURSE LISTING
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Course |
Course Title |
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Room |
Quarter |
| ENGL 102 |
Composition II |
Mon & Weds
4:20pm-6:00pm |
King Hall -B 4018 |
Spring Quarter 2012 |
| ENGL 207 |
Beginning Creative Writing |
Mon & Weds
1:30pm-3:10pm |
King Hall-B 4008 |
Spring Quarter 2012 |
| ENGL 327 |
Ethnicity and Emotions in U.S. Films |
Tuesday
6:10pm-10:00pm |
King Hall-B 2007 |
Spring Quarter 2012 |
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