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Wanjiru Mbure
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Culture & Faculty Development and Associate Professor of English and Film & Media Studies
Office:
136 Ewell Hall
Phone:
757-221-2779
Email:
wmbure@wm.edu
Areas of Research
Intersectional identities across gender, class, and race in legacy and social media; transnational representations of the urban Black body; and media histories of gender and propaganda.
Books
Mbure, W. G. Out for Glamour in Africa: A History of Black Urban Femininities in Drum Magazine. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2026.
Liaison to:
College of Arts & Sciences Committee on Academic Culture & Values and the Committee on Faculty Awards, Prizes, & Professorships (CFAPP)