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Dr. Linda Strong-Leek
Chair, Division VI, Professor of Women's and General Studies, Director of African and African American Studies Phelp
Stokes,
Room 206
CPO 1963
Phone: 859-985-3037
Fax: 859-985-3902
E-Mail:
At Berea College since 2002
| Degrees |
- B.A., North
Carolina Central University, 1988
- M.A., North
Carolina Central University, 1990
- Ph.D., Michigan
State University, 1994
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| Courses |
- Classic
Texts in Women’s Studies
- Stories
- Arts in Context
- Freshman
Composition
- Literary
Analysis
- Approaches
to Literature
- African
American Literature to 1865
- African
American Literature 1865-Present
- Black
Women in the Diaspora
- Major
African American Women Writers
- Major
African American Male Writers
- Caribbean
Women Writers
- Major African Writers
- African
American Women Writers
- Black
Women Writers in the 19th Century
- The
Slave Narrative
- Introduction
to African Writers
- African
American Short Story
- Twentieth
Century African American Literature
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| Special Interests |
- African-American
Literature
- African Literature
- Caribbean Literature
- Black Women in the Diaspora
- African American History
and Culture
- Womanism/Africana Feminism
- Diaspora Women’s Literature
- Women’s Studies
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| Papers and Publications |
- Winds
of Change: The Transforming Voices of Caribbean Women Writers and
Scholars. London,
Peter Lang Press, 1998. Edited with Adele S. Newson.
- Excising
The Spirit: A Literary Analysis of Female Circumcision. Manuscript Currently under
revision.
- “Reading as
A Woman: Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Feminist Criticism.” African
Studies Quarterly,5(2): 2 [online] Fall 2001.
- “Emerging Womanism
in the Works of Zimbabwean Women Writers.”
In Indigenous Knowledge and Technology in African and
Diasporan Communities. Edited by E. M. Chiwome, Z. Mguni, and Munashe
Furusa. Souther African Association for Culture and Development Studies,
University of Zimbabwe, Harare: 2000, pp. 201-214.
- “Inverting the
Institutions: Ama Ata Aidoo's No Sweetness Here."
In Emerging Perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo. Edited by
Gay Wilentz and Ada Uzoamaka Azodo. Lawrenceville, NJ: Africa World Press,
1998, pp. 145-55.
- "The Quest for
Spirituality and Sexuality in the Novels of Flora Nwapa." In Flora
Nwapa--Emerging Perspectives. Edited by Marie Umeh. Lawrenceville,
NJ: Africa World Press, 1998, pp.531-548.
- “Emerging Womanism
in the Works of Tsitsi Dangarembga, Barbara Mahkalisa, and J. Nozipo
Mararire.” In African Literature Association Conference Proceedings.
Upcoming, Fall 2001. Edited by Edris Makward, Mark Lilleleht, and Ahmed
Saber. Lawrenceville, NJ: Africa World Press, 2002.
- bell hooks, Carter G. Woodson, and African American Education. Journal of Black Studies, July 2008 38:850-861
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