Patrick Walter

Patrick Walter serves as Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies within the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin, holding a Ph.D. in English from the University at Buffalo, SUNY (2012).

His educational foundation includes doctoral training in English literature at the State University of New York system, completed in 2012.

Walter's research critically examines African American literary traditions through frameworks of Popular Culture, Film and Visual Studies, Marxist theory, and Psychoanalysis. His work investigates intersections of racial representation, ideological structures, and media production, with particular focus on genres like horror cinema, comic books, and protest narratives. Course offerings consistently explore themes of mass incarceration, police portrayals, and Oscar recognition in Black filmmaking.

As a dedicated educator, Walter maintains an intensive teaching schedule with 3-5 concurrent undergraduate courses per semester, including Cinema of Black Protest, Black Horror/Psychoanalysis, and Blackness and Comics. His curriculum spans historical analysis of African American music to contemporary examinations of capitalism in Black cultural production, with cross-listed offerings in American Studies and English departments.