Rate My Professor Sandra Adell

Adell has authored key works such as Double Consciousness/Double Bind: Theoretical Issues in Twentieth-Century Black Literature (University of Illinois Press, 1994), Literary Masters: Toni Morrison (Manly Books, Inc., 2002), Confessions of a Slot Machine Queen: A Memoir (EugeniaBooks, 2010), and edited Contemporary Plays by African American Women: Ten Complete Plays (University of Illinois Press, 2015) and Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Culture: African American Culture (Gale Research, 1996), for which she contributed approximately 262 entries. Her peer-reviewed articles have appeared in American Literary History, CLA Journal, Journal of Caribbean Studies, Diacritics, and Comparative Literature Studies. She served as executive and volume editor for Continuum: The Journal of African Diaspora Drama, Theatre and Performance. Among her honors are the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award (2017), Evjue-Bascom Named Professor (2018–2023), UW-Madison Vilas Associates Award (2011–2013), and Gender and Women’s Studies Faculty Research Fellowship (Fall 2022). Adell has presented at conferences including the Association for the Study of African American Life and History and National Council for Black Studies, often on Black theater and women’s narratives of gambling addiction. Her current projects include And Then the Casinos Came: Black Women’s Narratives About Gambling, Addiction, Recovery (manuscript under review at University of Illinois Press) and adapting her memoir for the stage as a solo play.