Glenda R. Carpio
Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and of English and American Literature and Language
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.
Courses | Biography | Recent Publications | Curriculum Vitae
Courses
African and African American Studies 131. African-American Literature to the 1920s
English 195x. Contemporary African American Literature
Biography
Professor Carpio focuses on African American literature and culture, literature of the African Diaspora, and Anglophone Caribbean Literature. Professor Carpio is currently working on a manuscript entitled, "Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery," and her writings and presentations include analysis of the works of Gayl Jones, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Derek Walcott. She is also co-editing an anthology of Caribbean women writers.
Professor Carpio received her Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and her B.A. was earned at Vassar College.
Recent Publications
"Conjuring the Mysteries of Slavery: Voodoo, Fetishsim and Stereotype," in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada (forthcoming in American Literature)
Norton Anthology of African American Poetry, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. et al, eds., (forthcoming, Norton & Company, 2006)