RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
•Black Women's Writing (internationally)
•African-American Literature
•Comparative Black Literature
•African Literature
•Caribbean Oral and Written Literature
•Cross-Cultural Feminist Theory
•Oral Tradition and Written Literature
•Cultural and Critical Theory
•African Diaspora
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
ADVISER/REVIEWER/CONSULTANT for African American Literature. Voices in a Tradition (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc./Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992). High School Textbook.
EXTERNAL EXAMINER: Graduate Theses, Dept. of English, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica and Cave Hill, Barbados Campuses, 1987 and continuing; University of Durban, Westville, South Africa Graduate degrees in African Literatures.
EDITORIAL BOARDS: • Obsidian II. 1988-; • Sage. A Scholarly Journal of Black Women, 1987-1995; • National Women's Studies Association Journal, 1988-1991; • Phoebe (founding board), • Abafazi, 1989-; • Alternation (South Africa, 1994-) • Jouvert. A Journal of Postcolonial Studies, electronic journal on World Wide Web, 1996-; • Macomere. Journal of Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars 1996-; • Thamyris (Amsterdam) 1996-.
INVITED CONSULTANT to/Member of Planning Commitee, 1996 Conference, "Global Migration and Nation States," American Studies Association.
Books
CBD's BOOKS
Ngambika. Studies of Women in African Literature.
New Jersey, Africa World Press, 1986. Edited with Anne Adams Graves.
Out of the Kumbla. Caribbean Women and Literature. New Jersey, Africa World Press, 1990. Edited with Elaine Savory Fido.
Black Women, Writing, and Identity. Migrations of the Subject.
London and New York: Routledge, 1994.
Moving Beyond Boundaries.
Carole Boyce Davies, General Editor. V.1 International Dimensions of Black Women's Writing. Narrative and Poetry. Edited and introduced by Carole Boyce Davies and 'Molara Ogundipe-Leslie. London, Pluto Press/New York: NYU Press, 1995.
The African Diaspora. African Origins and New-World Self Identities.
Eds. Isidore Okpewho, Carole Boyce Davies and Ali Mazrui. Indiana University Press, 1999
Decolonzing the Academy: African Diaspora Studies
Edited by Carole Boyce Davies
With Meredith Godsby, Charles Peterson and Henrietta Williams
•NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
..NOTE ADDRESS GIVEN AT BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY
•FIU MAGAZINE ARTICLE
CAROLE BOYCE DAVIES PROBES THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION OF AFRICAN-NEW WORLD STUDIES
•AFRICAN-NEW WORLD STUDIES NEWSLETTER ARTICLE
A 21ST CENTURY PARADIGM IN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
•L'AUTRE AFRIQUE 28 Janvier au 3 Fevrier MAGAZINE ARTICLE
CAROLE BOYCE DAVIES: "La centricité pose probléme"
SELECTION OF RECENT AND FORTHCOMING WORK (Full Vita available from African New-World Studies Program Secretary)
Edited Special Issues of Journals. "Caribbean Women Writers. Imagining Caribbean Space." Thamyris (Amsterdam) 1998. Forthcoming.
Articles/Book Chapters "Other Tongues: Gender, Language, Sexuality and Politics of Location." Women, Knowledge and Reality. Explorations in Feminist Philosophy. Eds. Ann Garry and Marilyn Pearsall. New York and London: Routledge, 1996: 339-352.
"Teaching Caribbean-/American Literature, "Teaching Multicultural Literatures. Ed. Arlette Willis, Norwood: Christopher Gordon Publishers, Inc., 1998: 193-214.
"Foreword" to Postcolonial African Writers. A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Eds. Pushpa Naidu Parekh and Siga Fatima Jagne. Greenwood Press: Westport, Conn., 1998:ix-xi.
"Afro-Brazilian Women, Culture and Literature. An Introduction and Conversation with Miriam Alves." MaComère. Journal of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars. 1:1(1998): 57-74.
"Migratory Subjectivities" (Introductory chapter to Migrations of the Subject. Black Women, Writing and Identity) in Blackwell's Literary Theory. An Anthology. Eds. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. Massachusetts and Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1998: 996-1015.
"Re-imagining Caribbean Space. An Introductory Meditation." Thamyris 5:2(Autumn, 1998): 185-193
"The Trap of Postcoloniality" Interventions. International Journal of Post colonial Studies 1:1 (Oct. 1998): 22-23.
"Re-/presenting Black Female Identity in Brazil: Filhas de Oxum in Bahia Carnival," Representations of Blackness in the Performance of Identity Ed. Jean Rahier. Greenwood Press 1/99: 49-67.
About me: EDUCATION
Ph.D. English (African/Caribbean Literature) University of Ibadan, Nigeria, 1978
M.A. African Studies (Literature & Sociology) Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1974
B.A. English (Summa Cum Laude) University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, 1971
• African Literature Association - (Executive Council 1984-1987; Secretary 1987-89; Vice President 1999-2000; President 2000-2001)
• African Studies Association
• Association of Caribbean Women Writers And Scholars (Founding Committee, Vice-Chair 1994-8, Chair 1998-2000)
• CAFRA- Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action
• Caribbean Studies Association
• College Language Association
• Modern Language Association (African Literatures Division Committee Member)
• National Women's Studies Association
• Women's Caucus of the African Literature Association (Founding President 1991-1993)
PLENARY ADDRESS / SELECTED LECTURES
• "Seeing Beyond the Wave. Geography, Culture and Space." Plenary Luncheon. Middle Atlantic Writers Association Annula Conference, Bowie, Maryland, October 23, 1998.
• "New Brutalities and Histories of Resistance." Presidential Address. African Literature Association. University of Kansas, Lawrence, April 2000.
• "Self construction vs. The FBI Files" Plenary Address at the Black Woman and the Diaspora Conference, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, June, 2000.
• "Movable Borders, Ocean Space Mobility and Diaspora Contestations," Caribbean Literature Conference, University of Miami, September 2000; African Diaspora Conference, Paris, October, 2000 and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, February, 2001.
• "Carnival and African Diaspora Creation" African Diaspora Conference, University of Lincoln, Nebraska, March, 2001.
• "Feminism and Transnationalism: The Activist Journalism of Claudia Jones" African Diaspora Conference, SUNY, Stonybrook, October, 2001.
RECENT AND FORTHCOMING LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
• "Afro-Brazilian Women's Literature." University of Durham, England, February, 1997.
• "Imagining the Caribbean. Geography, Culture and Space." Caribbean Women Writers Panel. Conference on Textuality, University of Trento, Italy April 9-11, 1997
• "Women and Writing in Africa and the Caribbean." Discussion with Ama Ata Aidoo and Olive Senior. Commonwealth Writers Conference- Enigmas and Arrivals. University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies. April 29-30, 1997.
• "Ghostwriting. Orality, Textuality and Life Narration." Warrick University, Coventry, England, May 13,1997 (autobiography series).
• "Racism, Academic Culture and Multiculturalism." St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York. October 23, 1997.
• "Beyond Unicentricity: Transcultural Black Intellectual Presences." Presence Africaine 50th Anniversary Conference, UNESCO, Paris, December, 1997; Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, March 6, 1998; Dartmouth College; April 16, 1998.
• "Black Women as Intellectuals and Activists." Binghamton University, Black Student Union Anniversary Celebrations, February 14, 1997.
• "Claudia Jones - Beyond Containment" Living Tradition in Africa and the Americas: The Legacy of Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovits," Northwestern University, April 3-5, 1998.
• "Black Feminist Thought: Dancing at the Borders" Black Studies: Re/Defining a Discipline Conference. Ohio State University, May, 1997
• "Education for Black Futures" Graduation Address. New Directions College, London, July 31, 1998.
• Chair of plenary panel on Paule Marshall. Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars Conference, Grenada, May 1998.
• Chair of panel and presenter "Socialism and the Caribbean Intellectual/Activist Tradition." Walter Rodney conference: Engaging the Legacies, Binghamton, New York, November 6, 1998.
• "Claudia Jones's Texts of Deportation" Schomburg, New York. Claudia Jones Symposium. December 2, 1998.
• "Theorizing the Diaspora" and "Beyond Unicentricity", University of California, Berkeley, and Mills College, Oakland, February 22, 23, 24, 1999.
• "Caribbean Female Bodies, Carnival and Space", Syracuse University (March, 1999), Dartmouth College (May, 1999).
• "Deportation and Diaspora: Claudia Jones' Atlantic Text" Coloniality Workshop, Binghamton University (March, 1999); Mediterraneanizing Theory and knowledge, Duke University, May, 1999; Michigan State University, Lansing, March 2000 SUNY-Buffalo, March 2000
• "Imperial Penetration/Postcolonial Geographies" Coloniality Workshop, Binghamton University, April, 2000.
• "Claudia Jones's Texts of Deportation" Schomburg Library, New York. Claudia Jones Symposium. December 2, 1998, SUNY-Buffalo and Michigan State University, Lansing, March, 2000; Canadian American Studies Association Conference, Ottawa, Canada, October, 2000.
• "Theorizing the Diaspora" and "Beyond Unicentricity", University of Califonia, Berkeley, and Mills College, Oakland, February 22, 23, 24, 1999.
• "Imperial Penetrations Movable Borders: The Caribbean Context." Coloniality Workshop, Binghamton University University, Binghamton, N.Y. (With Monica Jardine), April, 2000.
• "Claudia Jones and the Caribbbean Literature," University of Tours, Paris. October, 2000.
• "Claudia Jones and the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition," Caribbean Diaspora and Transnational Communities Symposium, South Bank University, September, 2001.
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