Associate Professor of English
George Washington University
Gayle Wald is associate professor of English at The George Washington University, where she teaches African American Literature and cultural studies. Author of Crossing the Line: Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture (Duke, 2000), as well as numerous articles about popular music culture, she is currently working on a project on Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the pre-history of "women in rock".