Professor Simone A. James Alexander to join the Panel Discussion on Celebrating African Women, March 17, 2024
Simone A. James Alexander is Professor of English, Africana Studies and Women and Gender Studies and affiliate member of the Russian and East European Studies Program at Seton Hall University. Her primary fields of research include women, gender, and sexuality studies, postcolonial literature, Transnational Feminist Theory, Caribbean/ Francophone literature and migration and diaspora studies. She is the author of the award-winning monograph, African Diasporic Women's Narratives: Politics of Resistance, Survival and Citizenship (UP of Florida, 2014; reprinted in 2016), which also received Honorable Mention by the African Literature Association Book of the Year Scholarship Award. Alexander is also the author of Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women (University of Missouri Press, 2001) and coeditor of Feminist and Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Mothering (Africa World Press, 2013). Her writing appears in Journal of West Indian Literature, L'Espirit Créateur, African American Review, MLA Approaches to Teaching Gaines', Turkish Journal of Diaspora Studies, Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's and Gender Studies, African Literature Today, Anglistica: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and edited anthologies. Alexander is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Colson Whitehead (Cambridge University Press, 2025). Her current projects include "Bodies of (In)Difference: Intimacy, Desirability and the Politics and 'Poetics of Relation'" and "Black Freedom in (Communist) Russia: Great Expectations, Utopian Visions."
Sunday, March 17, 2024
5 PM Nigeria // 11 AM Austin
Register and Watch:
https://www.tfinterviews.com/post/africanwomen
Join via Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83647239385
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