Duke African & African American Studies

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243 Ernestine Friedl Bldg.            1316 Campus Dr.
Box 90252
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708

telephone: 919.684.2830
facsimile: 919.684.2832   

 

 

  • Sharon P Holland

  • Associate Professor
  • African & African American Studies
  • 322 Allen
  • Phone: (919) 684-2741
  • Fax: 919-684-4871

  • Specialties

    • African American Literature
    • Gender & Sexuality Studies
    • Modern to Contemporary
    • Novels

  • Education

      • PhD,
      • Department of English Language and Literature,
      • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan,
      • 1992
      • A.B.,
      • Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.,
      • 1987

  • Awards, Honors and Distinctions

      • Fulbright Senior Lectureship in American Studies,
      • Universidad Complutense. Madrid, Spain,
      • Winter/Spring
      • Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize,
      • American Studies Association,
      • November, 2002
      • Dean's Fellow in the Humanities,
      • Stanford Humanities Center,
      • Fall 1997-Spring 1998
      • Sinclair Drake Teaching Award,
      • Black Community Services Center, Stanford University,
      • 0 1997
      • Pew Postdoctoral Fellow,
      • Program in African American Studies, Wesleyn University,
      • 0 1992

  • Selected Publications

      • (2000).
      • Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity.
      • Duke University Press.
      • (Awarded the Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize from the American Studies Association (2002).)
      • (Fall, 2006).
      • Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country.
      • Duke University Press.
      • (2008).
      • When Characters Lack Character: A Biomythography.
      • PMLA
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      • 123
      • (5)
      • ,
      • 1494-1502.
      Publication Description

      Special Issue on Comparatie Racializations

      • (2007).
      • No Atheists in the Fox Hole: Toward a Radical Queer Politics.
      • A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
      • Blackwell.
      • (Summer, 2005).
      • The Last Word on Racism: Toward a New Critical Race Theory.
      • South Atlantic Quarterly
      • ,
      • 104
      • (3)
      • .
      • (2003).
      • If you know I have a history, you will respect me: A Perspective on Afro-Native American Literature.
      • In Jonathan Brennan (Eds.),
      • When Brer Rabbit Meets Coyote
      • Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
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