(Funded by a Grant from the Provost’s Fund for Academic Excellence)
Participants
Daiyyah Abdullah, Assoc. Prof., Montgomery College, & ABD, Howard University abdullah@Howard.edu
Louise Bernard, Ph.D., FRSA*, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Georgetown University, lb267@georgetown.edu
Juliette Bethea, Cultural Activist and Supporter of the Arts, Washington, DC, JB40@webtv.net
Leah Blue*, Leah Blue is a doctoral student in the Department of English, Howard Universityleahblue@gmail.com
Carolyn T. Brown, Director, The John W. Kluge Center at The Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Rashida Bumbray, Exhibition Coordinator, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NYrbumbray@studiomuseum.org
Gay Gibson Cima, Director, Humanities and Human Rights Initiative, Department of English, Georgetown University, Washington
Scott Cohen, Assistant Professor of English, Stonehill College Fields scohen@stonehill.edu
Kimberly Collins*, Kimberly Collins is a doctoral student in the Department of English, Howard University, dcsoar@onebox.com
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Babacar Dieng*
Babacar Dieng is a Fulbright Fellow from Senegal
and a Graduate Student in the Department of Engish at Howard University lorddieng@hotmail.com
Ali Evans
PR Manager & Editor, The Studio Museum in Harlem
144 W. 125th Street; New York, NY 10027
(212) 864-4500 ext. 213
Fields of specialization/Special Interests: Visual Art, Music (Live & DJ culture), Performance, Publications aevans@studiomuseum.org
Susan Alice Fischer, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Academic Excellence &
Professor, Department of English
Medgar Evers College/CUNY
Brooklyn, New York 11225
Specialization: contemporary women’s London narratives.
safcpw@earthlink.net
Sarah Frankland
Arts Manager, British Council USA
The British Embassy, Washington, DC 20008
sarah.frankland@us.britishcouncil.org
Clement Goddard, Ph.D.
Professor, Montgomery College - Department of English; Special interests include: English language and literature; Caribbean literature & Black British literature. ClemGoddard@aol.com / clement.goddard@montgomerycollege.edu
Michele Rene Gregory, Ph.D.
Sociologist and Professor of Sociology
Department of Social Sciences; Specialization gender and work, especially in the UK.
York College/CUNY mrgcpw@earthlink.net
Patrick Goodin, Ph.D.*
Professor, Department of Philosophy, Howard University pgoodin@howard.edu
Helon Habila
Helon Habila, born in Nigeria, has worked both as a lecturer and a journalist in Nigeria. He was the African Writing Fellow at the University of East Anglia from 2002-2004. His first novel, Waiting for an Angel (Penguin, 2003) won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book (Africa Region). He was also a winner of the 2001 Caine Prize for African Literature. He was editor of the British Council’s New Writing 14 anthology with Lavinia Greenlaw. His second book, Measuring Time, is coming out in 2006. He is a contributing editor for the Virginia Quarterly Review and is currently the Chinua Achebe Fellow in Global Africana Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Habila is also completing his Ph.D. in Life Writing at the University of East Anglia. helonhabila@yahoo.com
Juanita Hardy
Co-Founder and Co-Director
Millennium Arts Salon, Washington, D.C.
juanita.hardy@hotmail.com
Melvin Hardy
Co-Founder and Co-Director
Millennium Arts Salon, Washington, D.C.
mhardyjr@hotmail.com
Tia Powell Harris
Associate Director, Education Programs
(Special emphasis: Theatre)
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
PO BOX 37012; Victor Building-Suite-8300, MRC 973
Washington, DC 20013-7012
202.275.1830 harrist@si.edu / harrist@npg.si.edu
William Harris
Visual Arts Instructor, Duke Ellington School of the Arts
Washington, D.C.
Field: Arts Education with an emphasis in Visual Arts
301.452.4407 (c) 301.439.7705 (h) williambillzart@aol.com
Eve Hawthorne*
Professor of English (Caribbean Writing Specialist), Howard UniversityEhawthorne03@aol.com
Andre Hoyrd, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Composition for Honors and African American Literature, Howard University.
dre59@earthlink.net
Joyce Ann Joyce, Ph.D.
Joyce Joyce is Professor in the Women’s Studies Department at Temple University. She is the internationally acclaimed author of numerous books and articles in the fields of African American studies, American literature, women's studies, and culture studies—including Ijala: Sonia Sanchez and the African Poetic Tradition , Richard Wright's Art of Tragedy, and Warriors, Conjurers, and Priests. She collaborated with Arthur P. Davis and J. Saunders Redding in editing a two-volume anthology of African American literature, The New Cavalcade. For an overview of her academic career, please see http://books.valdosta.edu/arch/Finding-aids/MS-23.html / jjoyce@temple.edu
Demetrios Kapetanakos
Doctoral student in the English Department at CUNY Graduate Center, writing dissertation on Black British Cultural Studies. (718) 479-4981 Devikey@gmail.com
Andy Mackay
Executive Director
The British Council— USA
The British Embassy, Washington, D.C.
Andy.mackay@us.britishcouncil.org
Tuere Marshall*
Doctoral Student, Department of English, Howard Univesity
tuerem@hotmail.com
Molly Michal
Arts Coordinator, British Council USA
The British Embassy, Washington, DC 20008
molly.michal@us.britishcouncil.org
James Miller
Professor of Africana Studies and English
The George Washington University
Washington, D.C.
Rose Oluronke Ojo*
Ph.D. Candidate—African American and Black British Photography,
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, England;
Research on black Diasporic identity within the photographic work of Ingrid
Pollard, Carrie Mae Weems, Yinka Shonibare, Renee Cox, Rotimi Fani Kayode and Albert Chong. roseoluronke@yahoo.com
Robtel Neajai Pailey
Robtel Pailey is Assistant Editor of The Washington Informer Newspaper ,an African American weekly publication that serves a readership of over 60,000 in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Currently, she covers Africa-related stories generated from developments in the nation's capital and abroad and is in the process of establishing regional African correspondents for the paper. rpailey@washingtoninformer.com / rpailey@yahoo.com
Tyechia Thompson*
Graduate Student, Department of English, Howard Universitytyechiathompson@hotmail.com
Jamie D. Walker, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Freshman Composition and African American Literature, Howard University;
Composition and African American Literature, Bowie State University ( Maryland).
Special interests: African American and Caribbean literature, contemporary Black autobiography, creative writing & poetry, Black gender politics in fiction and poetry, coming-of-age novels. divajamiewalker@aol.com / ProfessorWalkerJ@aol.com
Daria Winter*
Doctoral Student in the Department of English, Howard University
dpwinter@aol.com
