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Hazel V. Carby was born on January 15, 1948 in Oakhamton, Devon, United Kingdom. Daughter of Carlin Colin and Iris Muriel Carby. As a young child, Carby showed a talent for ballet. She won a scholarship to a ballet school, and trained to become a professional dancer from the ages of four to seventeen. During her drama classes at school, however, she developed an interest in reading. Eventually, Carby decided to study literature rather than pursue a career as a dancer.
Hazel earned a degree in Portsmouth Polytechnic in 1970, then a PGCE in 1972, at the institute of Education, London University. Then studied at Birmingham University Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies where she gained a M.A in 1979 and a Ph.D in 1984.
Hazel teached at high school from 1972 to 1979. Then she was an associate professor and taught English at Wesleyan University, Middletown from 1982 till 1989. Since 1989 she has been a professor of African American studies at Yale University, New Haven. She currently teaches courses on issues of race, gender and sexuality through the culture and literature of the Caribbean and its Diaspora; through transnational and postcolonial literature and theory; through representations of the black female body; and through the genres of science fiction.
Quotations: “I am honored to be the 2014 recipient of the Jay B. Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Achievement in American Literary Studies and delighted for the recognition of the important contribution of the fields of black Atlantic studies and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies to American literary culture.”
Hazel is a member of editorial boards for Yale Journal of Criticism, Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies.
Quotes from others about the person
Jacqueline Goldsby: "Whether chairing African American Studies towards achieving departmental status, creating research clusters to study the globalized formations of race and gender, or speaking out on behalf of workers who staff academic departments, Hazel is always creating spaces for American literary studies to do its work in a diverse world. The MLA picked the right person to honor when it chose her for the Hubbell Prize”.
Hazel Carby married fellow Yale professor Michael Denning, on May 29, 1982. They have a child, Nicholas Carby-Denning.
Carlin Colin Carby had joined the Royal Air Force, and was stationed in Britain.
Iris Muriel Carby came from a poor Welsh family.
Michael Denning is an American cultural historian. His work has been influential in shaping the field of American Studies by importing and interpreting the work of British Cultural Studies theorists.
