Carole Boyce Davies

Carole Boyce Davies is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University for the Fall semester 2014 and holds a position as Professor of African Studies and English at Cornell University.

Her most recent book is Caribbean Spaces: Escape Routes from Twilight Zones (University of Illinois Press, 2013). She is also the author of the prize-winning Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones (Duke University Press, 2008) and Black Women, Writing and Identity: Migrations of the Subject (Routledge, 1994) which is considered a theoretical base for many studies in the field of black feminist literary theory and the writing of migration. In addition to over a hundred scholarly articles, Dr. Boyce Davies has also published the following critical editions: Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature (Africa World Press, 1986); Out of the Kumbla: Caribbean Women and Literature (Africa World Press, 1990); 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 third volume of The Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora (Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 2008). She recently published a collection of the writings on Claudia Jones titled Beyond Containment: Claudia Jones: Autobiographical Reflections and Essays (Banbury: Ayebia, 2012). From Trinidad and Tobago, she earned an M.A. in African Studies from Howard and her Ph.D. in African Literature from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria on a Commonwealth Scholarship. Her next project is on women and political leadership in the African Diaspora.

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