Karla FC Holloway - Departments of English and African American Studies, Duke University
About this episode
The episode features a conversation with Karla FC Holloway about her contributions to African American Studies and literature.
This is John Drabinski and you’re listening to The Black Studies podcast, a series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, graduate students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers - in order to explore the cultural and political meaning of Black Studies as an area of inquiry and its critical methods. Today’s conversation is with Karla FC Holloway, Professor Emeritus in the Departments of English and African American Studies at Duke University.Along with numerous scholarly and public facing articles and edited collections, she is the author of a number of critical and literary pieces: The Character of the Word: The Texts of Zora Neale Hurston (1987), New Dimensions of Spirituality: A Bi-Racial and Bi-Cultural Reading of the Novels of Toni Morrison (with Stephanie Demetrakopoulos, 1987), Moorings and Metaphors: Figures of Culture and Gender in Black Women's Literature (1991), Codes of Conduct: Race, Ethics, and the Color of Our Character (1996), Passed On: African American Mourning Stories, A Memorial (2002), Bookmarks: Reading in Black and…
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