Michael Schmidt

Michael Schmidt

I am an advisor and student engagement coordinator with the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program (GSW). In addition to my administrative work, I am also a part-time lecturer for the GSW Program and Department of English. 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). And I am currently editing a manuscript where I explore queer aesthetic innovation as an engagement with the uneven terrain of sexual history and global capital.

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, 2013

Selected 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 2023 (future)

• GSW7200 - Feminist, Gender, and Queer Theory
• GSW5200 - Feminist, Gender, and Queer Theory
• GSW3200 - Introduction to Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies

Spring-Summer Term 2023 (future)

• ENG5035 - Topics in Gender and Sexuality Studies
• GSW5035 - Topics in Gender and Sexuality Studies
• GSW2500 - Humanities Perspectives on Gender, Sexuality, and Women

Winter Term 2023

• GSW7200 - Feminist, Gender, and Queer Theory
• GSW5200 - Feminist, Gender, and Queer Theory
• GSW3200 - Introduction to Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies

Fall Term 2022

• GSW7200 - Feminist, Gender, and Queer Theory
• GSW5200 - Feminist, Gender, and Queer Theory
• GSW3200 - Introduction to Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies

Spring-Summer Term 2022

• GSW5035 - Topics in Gender and Sexuality Studies
• ENG5035 - Topics in Gender and Sexuality Studies
• GSW2500 - Humanities Perspectives on Gender, Sexuality, and Women

Winter Term 2022

• GSW2500 - Humanities Perspectives on Gender, Sexuality, and Women
• GSW5200 - Feminist, Gender, and Queer Theory
• GSW7200 - Feminist, Gender, and Queer Theory

Fall Term 2021

• GSW7200 - Feminist, Gender, and Queer Theory
• GSW5200 - Feminist, Gender, and Queer Theory
• GSW2500 - Humanities Perspectives on Gender, Sexuality, and Women