• B.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison
• M.A., Teachers College, Columbia University
• Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center

Tyler T. Schmidt (he/him) is an Associate Professor of English at Lehman College. He also teaches courses in American Studies at CUNY’s Graduate Center. He served as co-coordinator of Lehman’s Writing Across the Curriculum program from 2008-2015 and 2018-2019. A Black Metropolis Research Consortium Summer Fellow in 2019, Professor Schmidt is currently completing a manuscript centered on a group of writers and visual artists based in the Midwest in the 1950s and 60s. The project reconsiders the cultural borders of the Chicago Black Renaissance and reevaluates racial aesthetics, queer cultural production, and regionalism in mid-twentieth-century America. His critical work has appeared in African American Review, Women Studies Quarterly, and Radical Teacher. Professor Schmidt's academic interests include African American literature, race and sexuality studies, American poetry, writing studies, and critical pedagogy.

Selected Publications

• "White Women and Cheap Hotels" in Hotel Modernism, edited by Anna Despotopoulou, Vassiliki Kolocotroni and Efterpi Mitsi. (Routledge, March 2023).
• "The 'Funny Fairies from Downstairs': Queer Creativity in William Demby's Love Story Black." African American Review, vol. 55 no. 2, 2022. doi:10.1353/afa.2022.0022.
• "Coming Down: A review of Ricardo Montez, Keith Haring’s Line: Race and the Performance of Desire." Postmodern Culture, vol. 31 no. 1, 2020. doi:10.1353/pmc.2020.0031.
• “Lessons in Light: Beauford Delaney’s and James Baldwin’s ‘Unnameable Objects’” in Of Latitudes Unknown: James Baldwin’s Radical Imagination (Bloomsbury, 2019)
• Desegregating Desire: Race and Sexuality in Cold War American Literature (University Press of Mississippi, 2013)