Mary Unger

Mary Unger is an Associate Professor of English and Director of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Ripon College. She holds a Ph.D., M.A., and B.A. in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on Black women's literary history, gender studies, material culture, and modernist literature. She explores themes such as literary reception, middlebrow culture, and intersectional identities in American contexts. Recent work includes studies on Black women's reading communities in Chicago and the role of textiles in multiethnic literature.

Her scholarship bridges historical analysis and contemporary social issues, as seen in her examination of post-Ferguson pedagogy and literary justice. She has contributed to scholarly discussions on figures like Djuna Barnes and George Lippard, emphasizing marginalized voices and queer urban spaces.

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