Dr. Sharon P. Holland
Associate Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, & Gender Studies Address: African American Studies Department 3-137 Crowe 1880 S. Campus Dr. Evanston, IL 60208-2209 Phone: 847-467-1107 Fax: 847-491-4803 Email: sharon-holland@northwestern.edu

Courses:

Non-teaching quarter in Fall; on leave winter and spring (but generally, Critical Race Theory, Afro-Native Studies, Cultural Studies, Sexuality and Gender Studies)

Degree:

Ph.D. English Language and Literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Current Research:

Have completed a draft of the second monograph, THE EROTIC LIFE OF RACISM; my novella, HOW BUBBA THE SOCRATES GOT TO BE NEITHER is under review at several small presses; have begun writing/research on third monograph, tentatively titled, AN ATHEIST POLITICS and am finishing a play titled, KILLING MARTHA. Am under contract with the FEMINIST PRESS for a critical introduction to the re-publication of Lila Karp's THE QUEEN IS IN THE GARBAGE, forthcoming in late Spring 2007.

Recent Awards:

Recipient of 2007 Fulbright as a Senior Lecturer in American Studies to Spain.

Recent Publications:

Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora In Indian Country

"Death in Black and White: A Reading of Marc Forster's MONSTER'S BALL" SIGNS, Summer 2006.

"The Last Word on Racism: Toward a New Critical Theory of Race" SAQ, Fall 2005.

Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity