# Renate Simson

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**Renate "Rennie" Marie Simson** (March 13, 1934 – February 19, 2017)[1] was an American author and professor of African-American literature and writing. Her work has been influential in African American literature and identity studies. She wrote an essay on Black women's sexuality and identity, *The Afro-American Female: The Historical Context of the Construction of Sexual Identity*.[2][3][4]

Her work posited that victimized black women often avoided intimacy altogether which affected their sexual identity causing them to become self-reliant.[5]

She worked as the English department at [SUNY Morrisville](/source/Morrisville_State_College) for several years. She published more than 30 articles and chapters and presented at over 50 conferences throughout in the United States and [Austria](/source/Austria).[6] She pioneered a study abroad program focusing on the Austrian African Diaspora in Austria with the [University of Graz](/source/University_of_Graz).[7] She was department chair of the [Department of African American Studies at Syracuse University](/source/Department_of_African_American_Studies_-_Syracuse_University).[8]

## Death

Simson died on February 19, 2017.[9]

## Publications

### Books

- *Will the Real America Please Stand Up* - 2008

### Papers

- Afro-American Literature of the 19th Century: A Focus for the 80's - Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Northeast Regional Conference on English [10]
- The Unsung Past: Afro-American Women Writers of 19th Century - Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English (69th, San Francisco, CA, November 22–24, 1980) [11]
- Politics and the race issue as presented in the works of Afro American women writers of the 19th century (Afro scholar working papers) - 1982

## References

1. ["Renate M. Simson"](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/renate-simson-obituary?pid=184195756). Legacy. 21 February 2017. Retrieved 21 July 2019.

1. Nicholson, L.J. (1997). [*The Second Wave: A Reader in Feminist Theory*](https://books.google.com/books?id=EcgSDuc2bWQC&pg=PA178). Vol. 1. Routledge. p. 178. ISBN 9780415917612. Retrieved 2017-01-25.

1. MacKinnon, C.A. (1989). [*Toward a Feminist Theory of the State*](https://archive.org/details/towardfeministth0000mack). Harvard University Press. p. [282](https://archive.org/details/towardfeministth0000mack/page/282). ISBN 9780674896468. Retrieved 2017-01-25.

1. Hames-Garcia, Michael [“Can Queer Theory be critical?”](https://books.google.com/books?id=sSbcqNyYPYEC&dq=rennie+simson&pg=PA207), *New Critical theory: essays on liberation*; accessed February 27, 2017.

1. Anderson, K. (1997). [*Changing Woman: A History of Racial Ethnic Women in Modern America*](https://books.google.com/books?id=EW5IWiDfNksC&pg=PA172). Oxford University Press. p. 172. ISBN 9780198022138. Retrieved 2017-01-25.

1. ["faculty profiles redirect"](http://as-cascade.syr.edu/profiles/pages/simson-renate.html). as-cascade.syr.edu. Retrieved 2017-01-25.

1. Simson Renate and Holly, "The African diaspora and Austria", The Department of African American Studies Newsletter 2007–2008, p. 20.

1. Burke, Michael (22 February 2017). ["Syracuse University professor in the African American Studies department dies"](http://dailyorange.com/2017/02/syracuse-university-professor-in-the-african-american-studies-department-dies/). *[The Daily Orange](/source/The_Daily_Orange)*. Retrieved 24 September 2021.

1. HomanRodoski, Kelly (2017-02-23). ["AAS Professor Renate 'Rennie' Simson Remembered for Her Many Contributions"](https://news.syr.edu/2017/02/aas-professor-renate-rennie-simson-remembered-for-her-many-contributions). Syracuse University. Retrieved 2017-02-25.

1. [*Afro-American Literature of the 19th Century: A Focus for the 80s/Rennie Simson | National Library of Australia*](http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/5391131). catalogue.nla.gov.au. 1980. Retrieved 2017-01-25.

1. [*The Unsung Past: Afro-American Women Writers of 19th Century / Renate Simson | National Library of Australia*](http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/5378334). catalogue.nla.gov.au. 1979. Retrieved 2017-01-25.

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