Carole Boyce Davies
Professor
Graduate Faculty Member
- Degrees
- University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Ph.D. - Howard University
M.A. - University of Maryland
B.A.
- Office: 204 Africana Studies and Research Center
- Phone: (607) 255-0680
- E-mail: ceb278@cornell.edu
Bio
Carole Boyce Davies joined Cornell from the English and African-New World Studies at Florida International University (FIU). Recruited to build the African-New World Studies Program at FIU, she served as its director for three successful three-year appointments, which moved the program to international recognition. She held distinguished professorships at a number of institutions, including the Herskovits Professor of African Studies and Professor of Comparative Literary Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of Black Women, Writing and Identity: Migrations of the Subject (Routledge, 1994) and Left of Karl Marx. Claudia Jones, Black/Communist/Woman (Duke University Press, forthcoming, 2007). In addition to numerous scholarly articles, Boyce-Davies has also published the following critical anthologies: Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature (Africa World Press, 1986); Out of the Kumbla. Caribbean Women and Literature (Africa World Press, 1990); and a two-volume collection of critical and creative writing entitled Moving Beyond Boundaries (New York University Press, 1995): International Dimensions of Black Women’s Writing (volume 1), and Black Women’s Diasporas (volume 2). She is co-editor with Ali Mazrui and Isidore Okpewho of The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities (Indiana University Press, 1999) and Decolonizing the Academy. African Diaspora Studies (Africa World Press, 2003). She is general editor of The Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora (Oxford: ABC-CLIO, forthcoming, 2007), a two-volume encyclopedia.
Research and Teaching Interests
- African Diaspora Studies
- Black Women’s Writing (internationally)
- Comparative Black Literature
- African Literature
- Caribbean Oral and Written Literature
- Transnational Feminist Theory
Current Projects
- Caribbean Spaces. Between the Twilight Zone and the Underground Railroad (a series of personal reflections)
- Beyond Containment: Claudia Jones, Activism, Clarity and Vision (an edition of the writings of Claudia Jones)