Background

Carole Elizabeth Boyce Davies was born in 1947 in Trinidad and Tobago. She is a daughter of Frank Bridgeman and Mary Boyce Joseph.

Education

In 1971 Carole Elizabeth Boyce Davies received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. In 1974 she obtained a Master of Arts degree from Howard University. Boyce Davies holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, which she received in 1978. In 2003 Carole gained a Master of Laws degree from St. Thomas University.

Career

From 1981 to 1987 Carole Elizabeth Boyce Davies was an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Binghamton, an associate professor from 1987 to 1994, and a professor of Africana Studies and English from 1994 to 1997. In 1994 she was Fulbright Professor at the University of Brasilia. In 1996 Boyce Davies was Elizabeth Kreeger Wolf Distinguished Visiting Professor at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

From 1997 to 2007 Carole Boyce Davies served as a professor of African Diaspora Studies and English at Florida International University. From 2000 to 2001 she was Herskovits professor of African Studies at Northwestern University. Since 2007 she has worked a professor of Africana Studies and English at Cornell University.

Achievements

• Carole Elizabeth Boyce Davies is best known as the author of the classic Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones. She has published over 100 journal articles and book chapters.

Works

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  • Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment

    (Claudia Jones, intellectual genius and staunch activist a...)

    2011
  • Moving Beyond Boundaries Volume 2: Black Women's Diasporas

    (Moving Beyond Boundaries makes a major contribution to ou...)

    1995
  • The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities

    (The African Diaspora contributes to the debate between th...)

    1999
  • Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones

    (In Left of Karl Marx, Carole Boyce Davies assesses the ac...)

    2008
  • Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zone

    (Drawing on both personal experience and critical theory, ...)

    2013
  • Walking

    (In this sweet coming-of-age tale, Carole Boyce Davies cap...)

    2016
  • Black Women, Writing and Identity

    (Carole Boyce-Davies is at the forefront of attempts to br...)

    1994
  • Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora

    (The authoritative source for information on the people, p...)

    2008
  • Decolonizing the Academy: African Diaspora Studies

    (Decolonizing the Academy asserts that the academy is perh...)

    2003
  • Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature

    (This book covers female portraiture, African women writer...)

    1986
  • Out of the Kumbla: Caribbean Women and Literature

    (A volume of essays that seeks to give voice to Caribbean ...)

    1990

Membership

Carole Elizabeth Boyce Davies is a member of African Literature Association, the Women's Caucus of the African Literature Association, the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars, the Association for the Study of the World Wide African Diaspora, the African Studies Association, the Caribbean Studies Association, the Modern Language Association, the National Women's Studies Association, the College Language Association, the Association for the Study of the African Diaspora in Asia.

Connections

In 1977 Carole Elizabeth Boyce married John A. Davies. In 1995 they divorced.

Father:

Frank Bridgeman

Mother:

Mary Boyce Joseph

ex-spouse:

John A. Davies

References

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