Josephine Metcalf

Josephine Metcalf teaches American culture and American history. Her research interests include contemporary African American and Mexican American popular culture and literature, with a particular focus on street gang / prison culture and reader reception studies. Her first monograph entitled The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs was released in 2012 and she has co-edited two collections of essays, one on Ice-T (with Will Turner, Ashgate, 2014) and the other on African American culture and society after Rodney King (with Carina Spaulding, Ashgate, 2015).