Tracey L. Walters
Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Community
Professor, Department of Africana Studies
Tracey L. Walters is Professor of Literature in the Department of Africana Studies, a department she chaired for six years, and holds affiliate appointments with the Departments of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Walters works in the areas Black Women’s Literature, African Diasporic Literature, Black British literature, and Black Classicism. She has published numerous articles and several books: African American Women and the Classicists Tradition: Black Women Writers from Wheatley to Morrison (2007), an edited collection Zadie Smith: Critical Essays (2008), and an ebookZadie Smith (2012), Zadie Smith Decoded: (2021) and NotYour Mother’s Mammy: The Representation of the Domestic in Transatlantic Media (2021). Walters is currently working on a book focused on West African immigrants in the U.K. and Fostercare Post World War II.
She has proudly spent her career invested in teaching and mentoring across the disciplines, at both the college and secondary school level. From 2017-2020, Walters established and supervised a college readiness program with Stony Brook University and the Tri CYA Community and Youth Agency; and since 2022, she has served as Faculty Director of the Academy of Civic Life, a college bridge program in partnership with SBU and Brentwood High School. Co-host of the podcast Black Girls with Accents, Walters is also Faculty Mentor for the Stony Brook PRODIGY+ Fellowship. She has received numerous awards such as the CELT Excellence in Teaching Award and the Provost’s Community Service Award.