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Anna L. Hinton

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: English

College: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Curriculum Vitae

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Education

  • PhD, Southern Methodist University, 2018
    Major: English
    Specialization: Women's and Gender Studies
    Dissertation: Refusing to Be Made Whole: Disability in Contemporary Black Women's Writing
  • MA, Southern Methodist University, 2016
    Major: English

Current Scheduled Teaching

ENGL 4260.001African American LiteratureSpring 2025
ENGL 3840.001American Literature 1870 to the PresentSpring 2025
ENGL 4280.001Africana Literature, Media and CultureFall 2024 Syllabus
ENGL 6950.721Doctoral DissertationFall 2024
ENGL 1310.400First Year Writing IFall 2024 Syllabus
ENGL 1320.406First Year Writing IIFall 2024 Syllabus
ENGL 4900.757Special ProblemsFall 2024
Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Previous Scheduled Teaching

ENGL 6950.721Doctoral DissertationSpring 2024
ENGL 4670.001Gender and Sexuality in LiteratureSpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 5900.721Special ProblemsSpring 2024
ENGL 3924.001Women's LiteratureSpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
WGST 3720.001Women's LiteratureSpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 4285.001Africana Theory and CriticismFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 6941.721Directed ResearchFall 2023
ENGL 3000.003Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation SkillsFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 5620.001Studies in Contemporary African American Literature and CultureFall 2023 SPOT
ENGL 6941.721Directed ResearchSpring 2023
ENGL 1310.060First Year Writing IFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 4850.001Literature in ContextFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 5620.001Studies in Contemporary African American Literature and CultureFall 2022 SPOT
ENGL 4670.002Gender and Sexuality in LiteratureSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 5620.001Studies in Contemporary African American Literature and CultureSpring 2022 SPOT
ENGL 2341.001Forms of LiteratureFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 4670.001Gender and Sexuality in LiteratureFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 4670.301Gender and Sexuality in LiteratureFall 2021 SPOT
ENGL 4640.001Studies in Literature and ScienceSummer 5W2 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 4850.001Literature in ContextSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 5620.001Studies in Contemporary African American Literature and CultureSpring 2021 SPOT
ENGL 4640.001Studies in Literature and ScienceSummer 5W2 2020 SPOT
ENGL 3840.002American Literature 1870 to the PresentSpring 2020 Syllabus
ENGL 4850.002Literature in ContextSpring 2020 Syllabus
ENGL 5900.722Special ProblemsSpring 2020
ENGL 3921.001African American LiteratureFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 3840.002American Literature 1870 to the PresentFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book Chapter

  • Hinton, A.L. (2023). “Disabled Diaspora: Transnational Models of Disability Justice”. Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice.
  • Foster, T.M., Hinton, A.L. (2022). “How to Read Disabled Bodies Now: Crip-of-Color Critique”. The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Body. Cambridge University Press.
  • Widmaier Capo, B., Lazzari, L., Hinton, A.L. (2022). “‘Learn and Run’: Reproductive Oppression and Resistance in the Works of Octavia E. Butler". The Palgrave Handbook Of Reproductive Justice and Literature. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Hinton, A., Satz, M., Baxter, L. (2017). “‘You’ve already got what you need, sugar:’ Southern and Maternal Identity in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon”. Toni Morrison and Mothers/Motherhood. Demeter Press. http://demeterpress.org/books/toni-morrison-and-mothersmotherhood/

    • Book Review

  • Hinton, A. (2020). Re-Reading Madness and Blackness in Black Women’s Fiction. https://www.aaihs.org/re-reading-madness-and-blackness-in-black-womens-fiction-2/

    • Editorial Introduction

  • Henry, K., Hinton, A.L., Coráñez Bolton , S. (2023). “Editorial Introduction: Origins, Objects, Orientations: New Histories and Theories of Race and Disability”. Disability Studies Quarterly. 43 (1)

    • Journal Article

  • Hinton, A. (2021). On Fits, Starts, and Entry Points: The Rise of Black Disability Studies.
  • Hinton, A. (2019). A War of Minds Waged Against Black Bodies: The Political Activist as Prisoner and Patient. 15 (2)
  • Hinton, A. (2018). Making do with what You Don’t Have: Disabled Black Motherhood in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents. 12 (4) 451-457.
  • Hinton, A. (2017). And So I Bust Back: Violence, Race, and Disability in Hip Hop. 60 (3) 290-304.

    • Magazine/Trade Publication

  • Garofalo, D.M., Hinton, A.L., Nixon, K., Reeder, J. (2019). The Humanities Without Nostalgia. The Chronicle of Higher Education. https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Humanities-Without/246323

    • Reprinted Article

  • Hinton, A.L. (2023). “And So I Bust Back: Violence, Race, and Disability in Hip Hop”. That's the Joint! The Hip-Hop Studies Reader.
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    • The course as a whole was
    • The course content was
    • The instructor’s contribution to the course was
    • The instructor’s effectiveness in teaching the subject matter was
  • Challenge and Engagement Index:
    This rating combines student responses to several SPOT items relating to how academically challenging students found the course to be and how engaged they were. Challenge and Engagement Index items include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 7 = Much higher, 4 = Average, and 1 = Much lower):
    • Do you expect your grade in this course to be
    • The intellectual challenge presented was
    • The amount of effort you put into this course was
    • The amount of effort to succeed in this course was
    • Your involvement in course (doing assignments, attending classes, etc.) was
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