Dr. Carole Boyce Davies

Carole Boyce Davies is Professor of English and African-New World Studies at Florida International University. She served as the director of African-New World Studies for three successful three-year appointments which moved the program to international recognition. Born in Trinidad and Tobago, she has degrees from the University of Maryland (BA, 1972); Howard University (M.A., 1974) and (University of Ibadan, Nigeria (Ph.D., 1978). She has been the Herskovits Professor of African Studies and Professor of Comparative Literary Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University and was also made a full Professor of English and Africana Studies at SUNY-Binghamton in 1994. She is author of Black Women, Writing and Identity: Migrations of the Subject (Routledge, 1994) and Claudia Jones… Left of Karl Marx. The Politics and Poetics of a Black Communist Woman (Duke University Press, forthcoming, 2007). In addition to numerous 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); 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 2-volume encyclopedia. Currently, Dr. Boyce Davies is writing a series of personal reflections called Caribbean Spaces. Between the Twilight Zone and the Underground Railroad, dealing with the issue of transnational Caribbean/American black identity, and is preparing an edition of the writings of Claudia Jones, Beyond Containment: Claudia Jones, Activism, Political Clarity and Vision.

e-mail: cboyced@fiu.edu
Websites include: www.africandiasporastudies.com