Belinda Wheeler is an Associate Professor of English at Claflin University, South Carolina, USA. Originally from Australia, Belinda completed her PhD in English at Southern Illinois University. Her research interests include Australian Aboriginal literature, African American literature, and twentieth-century American literature. She has published chapters on Australian Aboriginal literature in edited collections, interviews with Indigenous Australian authors Jeanine Leane (Antipodes 2014) and Ellen van Neerven (Antipodes 2017), and in 2013 she published the collection, A Companion to Australian Aboriginal Literature. The paperback edition of the Companion was released in 2015. Her second book, A Companion to the Works of Kim Scott (Camden House/ Boydell & Brewer) was released in 2016. Belinda is also the new editor of Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature (Wayne State UP). Outside of her Australian Aboriginal scholarship, Belinda has published articles on American modernist poets Lola Ridge and Gwendolyn Bennett in PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association of America), Modern American Poetry Site, and several edited collections. Her latest book, Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Gwendolyn Bennett’s Selected Writings (co-edited with Louis Parascandola) was recently released by Penn State University Press (2018). Wheeler is working on another book, Gwendolyn Bennett: The Harlem Renaissance’s Quintessential Poet, Artist, Editor, and Columnist, which is under contract with University Press of Mississippi.

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Belinda Wheeler

Belinda Wheeler is an Associate Professor of English at Claflin University, South Carolina, USA. Originally from Australia, Belinda completed her PhD in English at Southern Illinois University. Her research interests include Australian Aboriginal literature, African American literature, and twentieth-century American literature. She has published chapters on Australian Aboriginal literature in edited collections, interviews with Indigenous Australian authors Jeanine Leane (Antipodes 2014) and Ellen van Neerven (Antipodes 2017), and in 2013 she published the collection, A Companion to Australian Aboriginal Literature. The paperback edition of the Companion was released in 2015. Her second book, A Companion to the Works of Kim Scott (Camden House/ Boydell & Brewer) was released in 2016. Belinda is also the new editor of Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature (Wayne State UP). Outside of her Australian Aboriginal scholarship, Belinda has published articles on American modernist poets Lola Ridge and Gwendolyn Bennett in PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association of America), Modern American Poetry Site, and several edited collections. Her latest book, Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Gwendolyn Bennett's Selected Writings (co-edited with Louis Parascandola) was recently released by Penn State University Press (2018). Wheeler is working on another book, Gwendolyn Bennett: The Harlem Renaissance's Quintessential Poet, Artist, Editor, and Columnist, which is under contract with University Press of Mississippi.

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