Michele Elam, Associate Professor in English, was a Visiting Professor in 2003-05 and a Hewlett Fellow at Stanford's Research Institute of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity in 2002-03, where she began her current book project, Mixed Race in the New Millenium. Professor Elam is the author of Race, Work, and Desire in American Literature, 1860-1930 (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and has published articles in African American Review, American Literature, and Genre, among others. Her work also appears in collections on race and culture such as Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race and Gender from ""Oroonoko"" to Anita Hill (eds. Cathy Davidson and Michael Moon, Duke University Press) and in the forthcoming W.E.B. Du Bois and the Gender of the Color-Line (eds. Susan Gillman and Alys Weinbaum). The recipient of the St Clair Drake Outstanding Teaching Award at Stanford, Professor Elam teaches seminars on Slave Narratives; Mixed Race Literature and Theory; W.E.B. Du Bois and American Culture; the Harlem and Chicago Renaissances; Introduction to African American Literature; graduate seminars on African American Literary History & Theory and Black Feminist Theory, among others.