Glenda R. Carpio
Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and of English and American Literature and Language (Acting Director of Undergraduate Studies, 2009-2010)
Address:
Department of African and African American Studies
Harvard University
Barker Center
12 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.7868
Fax: 617.496.2871
Email: carpio@fas.harvard.edu
Courses | Biography | Recent Publications | Curriculum Vitae
Courses
African and African American Studies 131: African-American Literature to the 1920s
African and African American Studies 133: Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston (co-taught with Prof. Werner Sollors)
English 195x: Contemporary African American Literature
Biography
Glenda R. Carpio is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and English at Harvard University. Her book, Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery was recently published by Oxford University Press. The third chapter from the book was published in American Litertaure in 2005. She is currently working on a book tentatively entitled Ambivalent Alliances:
Black and Latina/o Fiction in the Americas, which includes a chapter on Junot Diaz's novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Professor Carpio started her teaching career in Compton, California where she taught 8th grade English and 4th grade through the Teach for America program. She recently received Harvard University's Abramson Award for Excellence and Sensitivity in Undergraduate Teaching.
Professor Carpio received her Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and her B.A. was earned at Vassar College. Recently, she was awarded tenure at Harvard University. An article on her promotion appeared in The Harvard Crimson, June 3, 2009 edition.
Recent Publications
Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery, New York:Oxford University Press (2008)
"Conjuring the Mysteries of Slavery: Voodoo, Fetishsim and Stereotype," in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada (forthcoming in American Literature)
"Junot's Prize: A Pulitzer First for Afro-Latino Literature" (April 29, 2008)