{"id":991,"date":"2026-03-20T04:01:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T12:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/?page_id=991"},"modified":"2026-03-23T05:29:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:29:42","slug":"melanie-masterton","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/melanie-masterton\/","title":{"rendered":"Melanie Masterton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section alignfull alignfull getwid-section-content-custom-width\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__wrapper getwid-padding-left-medium getwid-padding-right-medium\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__inner-wrapper\" style=\"max-width:1140px\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__background-holder\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__background\"><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__foreground\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__content\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__inner-content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-2-columns are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Melanie Masterton<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-advanced-heading\" style=\"margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-advanced-heading__content\">She\/Her<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>2025 ACLS Fellow and Lecturer, California Institute of Technology<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Melanie Masterton is a 2025 ACLS Fellow and a lecturer in English and Writing at the California Institute of Technology in the Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences. She is a former University of California President&#8217;s Postdoctoral Fellowship in English at UCLA and former Terra Foundation Affiliated Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. Her scholarly work appears in <em>Modern Language Notes<\/em>, <em>African American Review<\/em>, <em>California Italian Studies<\/em>, <em>Pacific Coast Philology<\/em>, <em>Modernism\/modernity<\/em>, <em>ARIEL<\/em>, <em>Italian Quarterly<\/em>, <em>MELUS<\/em>, and <em>Mississippi Quarterly<\/em>. With Ugo Rubeo and James C. Hall, Masterton co-edited and co-wrote an introduction to &#8220;New Perspectives on William Demby,&#8221; a special issue of <em>African American Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo credit: V. 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