Michelle J. Pinkard | Faculty | Languages, Literature and Philosophy

Department of Languages, Literature, and Philosophy

Office: 220 Jackson
Phone: 615-963-5715
Email: mpinkar1@tnstate.edu

Ph.D., Arizona State University
MA, Morgan State University
BA, Paul Quinn College

• “On Francis Harper.” DLB 381: Writers on Women’s Rights and United States Suffrage. Ed. George Anderson, Gale Research Inc.: 2017
• “Where Pepita Be: Confronting Gendered Erasure in Gwendolyn Brooks’ In the Mecca.” Journal of Ethnic American Literature, 2017.
  
• ““Don’t Knock at My Door Little Child:’” The Mantled Poetics of Georgia Douglas Johnson’s Motherhood Poetry” in Critical Insights: Harlem Renaissance.  Ed. Christopher Varlack, Salem Press, 2015.
• “A Conversation with Aunt Carol: The Fluid Functionality of Funeral Programs in the African American Community,” in Women and the Material Culture of Death. Eds. Maureen Goggin and Beth Tobin, Ashgate Publishing, 2013.

• The Eye of the Tornado: Fifty Poems for Rhyme and Reason, La Caille Nous Publishing, Inc., 2004
• Meridians, Accepted poetry in forthcoming issue: “Summer Girl” and “Token Survival Guide,” 2018
• College Language Association Journal, “Dying Declarations,” 58.3/4, 2015 (Poetry)
• African American Review, Project Muse, 47.1, 2014 (Poetry)
• Callaloo, Project Muse, 35.4. Fall 2012 (Poetry)
• Family Pictures, The Washington Post, 2007 (Poetry)
• In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself, MWE Enterprises, 2005 (Poetry)
• Sunday at Four, The Trapped Truth Society, Spring/Summer 2004 (Poetry contribution to anthology and accompanying CD).
• Aunties: Thirty-Five Writers Celebrate Their Other Mother, Ballantine Books, 2004 (Short story)
• Between Quiet and Confrontation, Lost Words Publishing, 2003 (Poetry)

Business and Military Affairs Reporter/Columnist: Reporting for The Shreveport Times included following the activities of Barksdale Air Force Base, veteran’s affairs, general assignments and local business developments. Shreveport, LA, 2000 – 2003.

• 2016  “Branding Cosby: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Beloved Father” at the Popular Culture/American Culture Association in the South Conference, Nashville, TN.
• 2015  “Maternal Poetics in Harlem Renaissance Poetry” at Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
• 2015  “Now the way of the Mecca was on this wise:” Tracing Intersectionality in Gwendolyn Brooks’ In the Mecca’”  SCMLA, Nashville, TN.
• 2014   “‘It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods:’ The Poetics and Politics of Silence in Women’s Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance.” Furious Flower Poetry Conference, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.
• 2013    National Endowment of Humanities Summer Institute, “Don’t Deny My Voice: Reading and Teaching African American Poetry.” NEH Scholar, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
• 2012    Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, Brown University, Providence, RI.
• 2011    “‘Do Not Knock at My Door Little Child’: Maternal Representations in the Poetry of Georgia Douglas Johnson,” at African American Literature Conference, Penn State University, State College, PA.
• 2010    “A Conversation with Aunt Carol: The Fluid Functionality of Funeral Programs in the African American Community,” at Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations Conference, Albuquerque, NM.
• 2008    “A Defense of Georgia Douglas Johnson: Modernist, Feminist and Harlem Renaissance Poet,” at Lifting Belly High: Women Poets Since 1900s, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.

• LLP Technology Committee
• Faculty Senate Technology Committee
• Career Development Liaison
• LLP Webmaster
• Sophomore Literature
• Advisement and Faculty Adviser for Soul Fire Poetry Group.

• 2016 Tenure Track Teacher of the Year in the College of Liberal Arts
• 2016 nominated Faculty Award for Exemplary Service-Learning
• 2016 Outstanding Service Learning Project Award
• 2018 Outstanding Service Learning Project Award

• ENGL 1010 – Freshman English I
• ENGL 1012 – Hon. Freshman English I
• ENGL 1020 – Freshman English II
• ENGL 2013 – Black Arts and Literature I
• ENGL 2023 – Black Arts and Literature II
• ENGL 3120 – Creative Writing Poetry I
• ENGL 4160 – Writing for Publication
• ENGL 4920 – Advanced Poetry Writing