Gayle Wald

Gayle Wald
Occupation	Professor of English and American Studies
Awards	John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2012-13) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2012-13) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2005-06)
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Virginia (B.A., 1987) Princeton University (Ph.D., 1995)

Gayle Wald is a professor of English and American Studies at George Washington University and a Guggenheim Fellow.^[1][2] From 1994-95 she was Visiting Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

Education[]

Wald graduated with a B.A. in English and French from the University of Virginia in 1987 and subsequently obtained a Ph.D. in English from Princeton University in 1995.

Career[]

She is currently Professor of American Studies at George Washington University. Formerly she served as chair of English; currently she serves as chair of American Studies.

She has been a co-editor of the Journal of Popular Music Studies.^[3] She regularly writes pieces for newspapers and blogs.^[4][5][6][7]

She has also been coeditor of Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series.

Works[]

• Crossing the Line: Racial Passing in U.S. Literature and Culture (Duke University Press, 2000)^[8]
• Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe (Beacon Press, 2007)^[9]
• It's Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television (Duke University Press, 2015)^[10]

Shout, Sister, Shout! is the basis for the documentary film Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Godmother of Rock & Roll, directed by Mick Csaky.^[11]

Shout, Sister, Shout! is also the basis for the musical "Shout, Sister, Shout!" directed by Randy Johnson; book by Cheryl L. West. [Opened at the Pasadena Playhouse July 2017; will play at Seattle Repertory Theater in November 2019] and for the musical "Marie and Rosetta" by George Brant at the Atlantic Theater Company.^{[12][13][14][15]}

In September 2019, Beacon released an audiobook of Shout, Sister, Shout! featuring Leslie Uggams and produced by Elizabeth Healy.

She is currently writing a book about children's musician Ella Jenkins.^[16][17]

Awards and recognitions[]

• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2012–13
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2012–13  
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2005-6

Wald has twice been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities faculty fellowship: once in 2005-6 and again in 2012-13.^[18]

She received the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship], 2012-13.

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