Gayle Wald


Gayle Wald is a professor of English and American Studies at George Washington University and a Guggenheim Fellow. From 1994-95 she was Visiting Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

Education

Wald graduated with a B.A. in English and French from the University of Virginia in 1987 and subsequently obtained a Ph.D. in English from Princeton University in 1995.

Career

She is currently Professor of American Studies at George Washington University. Formerly she served as chair of English; currently she serves as chair of American Studies.
She has been a co-editor of the Journal of Popular Music Studies. She regularly writes pieces for newspapers and blogs.
She has also been coeditor of Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series.

Works

Shout, Sister, Shout! is the basis for the documentary film , directed by Mick Csaky.
Shout, Sister, Shout! is also the basis for the musical "Shout, Sister, Shout!" directed by ; book by Cheryl L. West. and for the musical "Marie and Rosetta" by George Brant at the Atlantic Theater Company.
In September 2019, Beacon released an audiobook of Shout, Sister, Shout! featuring Leslie Uggams and produced by Elizabeth Healy.
She is currently writing a book about children's musician Ella Jenkins.

Awards and recognitions

Wald has twice been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities faculty fellowship: once in 2005-6 and again in 2012-13.
She received the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship], 2012-13.