CETL Archives
Workshop Archive - Spring 2003 Discussion
Title: A Discussion: The Works of Carole Boyce
Davies
Facilitator: Jesse Benjamin (HURL/COE)
Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2003
Time: 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Location: Atwood — Valhalla Room (in
back room)
Please consider ordering lunch from the menu or purchasing the salad bar.
Discussion — Black Women Writers and Black
Women’s Voices, often marginalized
within the academy and the public sphere, are not only significant
and worthy of engagement, but raise questions about the construction
of knowledge and how knowledge and power are related.
Description: This is an opportunity for SCSU faculty to discuss two pieces of work by Dr. Carole Boyce Davies, one of the nation’s leaders in African-New World Studies. Each participant (who registers by the deadline) will receive a photocopy of two pieces of material which Dr. Davies has authored or edited.
Dr. Davies brings an impressive list of credentials to her work (Ph.D. in English from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, in 1977; M.A. in African Studies in Literature and Sociology from Howard University in 1974; and a B.A. in English from the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, in 1971). Her works include the following:
- Ngambika Studies of Women in African Literature (ed.) (1986)
- Out of the Kumbla. Caribbean Women and Literature (ed.) (1990)
- Black Women, Writing, and Identity. Migrations of the Subject. (1994)
- Moving Beyond Boundaries. Vol. 1. International Dimensions of Black Women’s Writing (ed.) (1995)
- Moving Beyond Boundaries. Vol. 2. Black Women’s Diaspora. Critical Responses and Conversations (ed.)
- The African Diaspora. African Origins and New-World Self Identities (ed.) (1999)
Dr. Davies is currently the director of African-New World Studies and Professor of English and African-New World Studies at Florida International University.
Those faculty who attended the “Decolonizing Methodologies . . .” on Wed., February 26, will find this discussion especially interesting.
A Special Invitation Also plan to attend: Dr. Davies will also highlight her forthcoming
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