Sami Schalk

Sami Schalk
EducationBA in English, Women's Studies, Miami University, 2008

MFA in Creative Writing, University of Notre Dame, 2010

Ph.D. in Gender Studies, Indiana University, 2014
Occupation(s)professor, academic
Websitehttps://samischalk.com/

Sami Schalk is an associate professor in the Department of Gender & Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[1] She was previously an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University at Albany, SUNY.

In 2019 she started the campaign #twerkwithlizzo, combining fun with larger issues relating to racism, sexism and fatphobia as a form of "pleasure activism". Her twerking with Lizzo went viral.[2]

Cultural significance

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Schalk twerked with Lizzo onstage on October 10, 2019.[3] She twerked onstage with Janelle Monáe on the Age of Pleasure tour in Indianapolis, Indiana, on September 10, 2023.[4] She talked with Jonathan Van Ness on his Getting Curious podcast in an episode from October 26, 2022, about Black disability politics.[5]

Education

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Schalk received her B.A. in English & Women's Studies in 2008, with a minor in Disability Studies, from Miami University, and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame in 2010. She received her PhD in Gender Studies from Indiana University in 2014.

Awards

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  • In 2021, Schalk received the University of Wisconsin System Outstanding Women of Color Award, which is intended to honor women "for their leadership in making significant and lasting contributions to their campuses, their communities or both."[6]
  • In 2019, Schalk received the LGBTQ Advocate of the Year award from the OutReach LGBT Community Center in Madison, Wisconsin.[7]

Publications

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Schalk has published numerous journal articles,[8][9][10] book chapters,[11][12] essays,[13] reviews,[14] and popular articles.[15][16] In 2018, she published a monograph titled Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction.[17] In 2022, she published the book Black Disability Politics.[18] It is also available online through open access downloads from the publisher.[19] Her books were published through Duke University Press.

References

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  1. ^ "Sami Schalk". Disability Studies. Retrieved 2022-10-28.
  2. ^ Miller, Jeff (Spring 2020). "The Professor Who Twerked with Lizzo | On Wisconsin". Retrieved 2023-11-13.
  3. ^ Schalk, Sami (October 18, 2019). "When I twerked onstage with Lizzo, it was an act of political defiance". Vox.
  4. ^ "https://twitter.com/DrSamiSchalk/status/1701205507124416532?s=20". X (formerly Twitter). Retrieved 2023-09-24. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
  5. ^ "What's At The Heart Of Black Disability Politics? with Professor Sami Schalk - Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness". Jonathan Van Ness. 2022-10-26. Retrieved 2023-09-24.
  6. ^ "Associate Professor Sami Schalk recipient of UW System Outstanding Women of Color Award". Gender & Women's Studies. 2021-09-16. Retrieved 2023-11-25.
  7. ^ "GWS Professor Sami Schalk Awarded OutReach LGBTQ Advocate of the Year". Gender & Women's Studies. 2019-08-16. Retrieved 2023-11-25.
  8. ^ Schalk, Sami. “De-politicized Diversity in the American Girl Brand” Research on Diversity in Youth Literature 2.2 (2020). Article 7.
  9. ^ Schalk, Sami. “Strategic Alterations and Afro-Asian Connections in Paul Beatty’s Tuff.” Mosaic. 51.1 (2018). 55-70.
  10. ^ Schalk, Sami. “BeForever?: Disability in American Girl Historical Fiction.” Children’s Literature. 45 (2017) 164-187.
  11. ^ Schalk, Sami. “Teaching the Social Construction of Disability through the Work of Octavia E. Butler.” Approaches to Teaching Octavia E. Butler. ed. Tarshia Stanley. Modern Language Association of America Press, 2019. 97-102
  12. ^ Schalk, Sami. “Resisting Erasure and Conflation: Reading Race and (Dis)ability in Speculative Media.” Routledge Companion to Disability and Media. eds. Haller, Goggin, and Ellis. London: Routledge UP, 2019. 137-146.
  13. ^ Schalk, Sami. “Foreword to the Special Issue on Disability Studies: Bodyminds, Science Fiction and Disability Studies” Journal of Science Fiction. 3.2 (2019): 10-11.
  14. ^ Schalk, Sami. “Review of Barriers and Belongings: Personal Narratives of Disability” The ALH Online Review. Series XI. 2017. n. pag. Web.
  15. ^ “Lowbrow Culture and Guilty Pleasures? The Performance and Harm of Academic Elitism” Inside Higher Ed. February 2019. https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2019/02/22/professor-asks-who-arbiter-lowbrow-scholarly-interests-and-pursuits
  16. ^ Schalk, Sami. “A Call-In To White Feminists About "Surviving R. Kelly." BUST.com. January 2019. https://bust.com/feminism/195546-surviving-r-kelly-call-in.html
  17. ^ "Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction". Duke University Press. March 2018.
  18. ^ Schalk, Sami (2022-10-31). Black Disability Politics. doi:10.1215/9781478027003. ISBN 978-1-4780-9268-1. S2CID 252170711.
  19. ^ "Scholar Sami Schalk Seeks To Merge The Worlds Of Black Activism And Disability Advocacy With Her New Book". Essence. 2022-10-25. Retrieved 2023-11-10.
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