College of Arts and Humanities

Melanie Hernandez

Associate Professor

English | 559.278.4921 | Office: PB 382

Education

Ph.D. in English - University of Washington, 2013

Certificate in Public Scholarship - Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, 2013

M.A. in English - CSU Dominguez Hills, 2005

B.A. in Psychology - New York University, 2002

Courses Taught

ENGL 32: Readings in U.S. Literature
ENGL 103: Masterpieces of U.S. Literature
ENGL 105: Textual Analysis
ENGL 141: Mstrpcs. of African American Lit.
ENGL 144: Masterpieces of Chicanx Literature
ENGL 153: U.S. Literature to 1865
ENGL 154: U.S. Literature, 1865-WWI
ENGL 155: Modern & Contemp. U.S. Literature
ENGL 160W: Writing Workshop
ENGL 179: Multiethnic Literature & Writing

Melanie Hernandez is Associate Professor and Chair of the English Department at Fresno State, where she teaches courses in U.S. literature and cultural production. She specializes in nineteenth-century U.S. literature, with an emphasis on comparative African American and Chicanx Studies. She has held research fellowships at the American Antiquarian Society and LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections at the University of Texas, Austin, and was a volunteer composition instructor for University Beyond Bars, in collaboration with the Washington State Reformatory and Shoreline Community College.

Prior to teaching, Dr. Hernandez worked in television and radio, including the Oxygen network, ABC’s The View, radio station K-EARTH 101, Saturday Night Live!, E! News Daily, The Howard Stern Show, and Eyewitness News. She prefers teaching.