Michael Schmidt

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, 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

Winter Term 2025 (future)

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

Fall Term 2024 (current)

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

Winter Term 2024

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

Fall Term 2023

• GSW3200 - Introduction to Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s 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

Winter Term 2023

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

Fall Term 2022

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

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