Melanie Marotta

Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor of English & Gender, Sexuality, & Women's Studies

Office: Tucker Hall 117
Email: mamarotta@wm.edu
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 11:30am-12:30pm (Fall 2025)

African American literature, contemporary Young Adult literature, the gothic, horror, science fiction, women’s studies, and gender studies

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Coedited with Miranda Corcoran. Special Women and Horror Issue of Horror Studies. Expected mid-2026.
Coedited with Miranda Corcoran. The Oxford Handbook for Women and Horror (contracted).
Marotta, Melanie A. African American Adolescent Female Heroes: The Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Neo-Slave Narrative. University Press of Mississippi, 2023. Children’s Literature Association Series. https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/African-American-Adolescent-Female-Heroes
Marotta, Melanie A. and Susan Flynn, editors. Critical Pedagogy: Diversity, Inclusion, and the Visual in Higher Education, Routledge, 2021. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003222835/critical-pedagogy-race-media-susan-flynn-melanie-marotta
Marotta, Melanie A., editor. Women’s Space: Essays on Female Characters in the Twenty-first Century Science Fiction Western. McFarland, 2019. https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/womens-space/

PhD, Morgan State University; MA, Northwest Missouri State University; BAH, University of Guelph; Ontario College Diploma, Niagara College (Canada)