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Alisse Portnoy is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland (1999). Her work focuses on 19th and 20th century American literature, rhetoric, pedagogy, and issues of race and gender in historical activism. She is the author of Their Right to Speak: Women's Activism in the Indian and Slave Debates, a groundbreaking study of early 19th-century women’s political activism through petitions against Native American removal and slavery debates.
Portnoy teaches courses such as ENGLISH 140 (First-Year Seminar on English Language and Literature) and ENGLISH 319 (Literature and Social Change). Her office is located in 3236 Angell Hall, with Zoom office hours on Tuesdays at 8–9 AM and Fridays at 9:30–10:30 AM, or by appointment.
Her research integrates women’s studies, Native American studies, and African American studies, exploring how marginalized groups navigated societal constraints to advocate for social justice. No academic awards or grants are explicitly listed in the provided materials.
