Michael Schmidt
Assistant Professor of Teaching
Assistant Director & Academic Student Services Coordinator, Center for Gender and Sexuality
Center for Gender and Sexuality
Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program (GSW)
Wayne State University
5057 Woodward, 9th floor, room 9204.1
Detroit, MI 48202
Department
Center for Gender and Sexuality
Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program
Michael Schmidt
I am an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Center for Gender and Sexuality where I also work as the Assistant Director and Academic Student Services Coordinator. My research interests include twentieth century American literature, literary theory, Marxism, forms of community, and gender and sexuality. My work has appeared in several journals and the anthology Modernism and Unreadability (Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée).
Research interest(s)/area of expertise
20th Century American literature, literary theory, Marxism, forms of community, and gender and sexuality
Education
PhD English, Wayne State University, 2013Selected publications
“Nightwood as a Way of Life.” Feminist Modernist Studies 2.1 (2019): 104-120.
“A Materialist Desire in The Young and Evil.” Studies in American Fiction 48.2 (2018): 213-233.
“Cruising Henry James: The Scene of Queer Sociality as a Critique of Capital.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 22.1 (2016): 81-108.
Courses taught by Michael Schmidt
Fall Term 2025 (future)
- ENG5035 - Topics in Gender and Sexuality Studies
- GSW3200 - Introduction to Gender, Sexuality, and Womens Studies
- GSW5035 - Topics in Gender and Sexuality Studies
Winter Term 2025 (current)
- GSW3200 - Introduction to Gender, Sexuality, and Womens Studies
- GSW5200 - Feminist, Gender, and Queer Theory
- GSW7200 - Feminist, Gender, and Queer Theory
Fall Term 2024
- GSW5200 - Feminist, Gender, and Queer Theory
- GSW7200 - Feminist, Gender, and Queer Theory
- GSW3200 - Introduction to Gender, Sexuality, and Womens Studies
Winter Term 2024
- GSW5200 - Feminist, Gender, and Queer Theory
- GSW7200 - Feminist, Gender, and Queer Theory
- GSW3200 - Introduction to Gender, Sexuality, and Womens Studies
Fall Term 2023
- GSW3200 - Introduction to Gender, Sexuality, and Womens Studies
- GSW5200 - Feminist, Gender, and Queer Theory
- GSW7200 - Feminist, Gender, and Queer Theory
Spring-Summer Term 2023
- ENG5035 - Topics in Gender and Sexuality Studies
- GSW5035 - Topics in Gender and Sexuality Studies
- GSW2500 - Humanities Perspectives on Gender, Sexuality, and Women