Lisa Walker, PhD

SHE | HER | HERS

  • Associate Dean, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
  • Associate Professor of English
Lisa Walker smiling in a light pink blazer with a white painted brick background
207-780-4311

228 Deering Avenue, Portland campus

Education

  • PhD, English, Louisiana State University, 1995
  • MA, English, Louisiana State University, 1991
  • BA, Oberlin College, 1987

Research Interests

Modern American literature and gay/lesbian studies

Lisa Walker joined USM in 1995. She was the Director of the Women and Gender Studies Program from 2015-2018. She has published on models of minority sexual identities in her book Looking Like What You Are: Sexual Style, Race and Lesbian Identity (2001), and essays in Sexualities, Signs, and Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature. Her research interests include femininity, fashion theory, and beauty culture in American literature.

Lisa Walker smiling in a light pink blazer with a white painted brick background
207-780-4311

228 Deering Avenue, Portland campus

Education

  • PhD, English, Louisiana State University, 1995
  • MA, English, Louisiana State University, 1991
  • BA, Oberlin College, 1987

Research Interests

Modern American literature and gay/lesbian studies