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Melanie Marotta
Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor of English & Gender, Sexuality, & Women's Studies
Office:
Tucker Hall 117
Email:
mamarotta@wm.edu
Office Hours:
Monday, Wednesday, & Friday 11:00am -11:50am (Spring 2026)
Areas of Specialization
African American literature, contemporary Young Adult literature, the gothic, horror, science fiction, women’s studies, and gender studiesBooks
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.
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/