Vallaire Wallace is a Ph.D Candidate who studies 20th Century African American literature, black feminist and black queer theory. She completed her undergraduate studies at Queens College, CUNY where she wrote her Mellon Mays Undergraduate Thesis on the unspoken history of Barracoon, Zora Neale Hurston's posthumous  biography of the last known survivor of the Middle Passage. Her dissertation, written under the direction of Marlon B. Ross, is tentatively titled "Towards Elsewhere: Black Queer Literature and the Politics of Movement" and focuses on travel, life writing and its relation to black queer subjectivity, attending to the ways movement ruptures our understanding of connection for black queer people through the twentieth and twenty-first century. Her project is supported with the Mellon Mays Foundation, as a continuing Mellon Mays Fellow. Her work is also published with DIO Press and Electric Literature.

 

Wallace, Vallaire. “Queens College, Freedom Summer, And Me: Self-Discovery in Archives.” The Children of The People: Writings By and About CUNY Students on Race and Social Justice , DIO Press, 2021.

 

Wallace, Vallaire. “The Novel That Shows Us How to Face Our Past to Change Our Future.” Electric Literature. https://electricliterature.com/the-novel-that-shows-us-how-to-face-our-past-to-change-our-future/