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Department of African & African American Studies
at Duke University

Karla FC Holloway, Professor, English  

Karla FC Holloway

Office Location: 304F Allen Bldg
Office Phone: 919.684.8993
Email Address: karla.holloway@duke.edu

Specialties:
African American Literature
Literature and Law
Gender & Sexuality Studies
American Literature
Literature and Medicine

Education:
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1978
MLS, Duke University School of Law, 2005
M.A., Michigan State University, 1972
A.B., Talladega College, 1971

Teaching (Fall 2008):

  • ENGLISH 271ES.04, Sp top seminar iv Synopsis
    Allen 306, W 06:00 PM-08:30 PM
  • AAAS 299S.04, Special topics
    Allen 306, W 06:00 PM-08:30 PM
  • LAW 611A.01, Readings in ethics
    Law school 3171, W 06:00 PM-08:30 PM

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. BookMarks: Reading in Black and White--A Memoir (2006), Rutgers University Press .
  2. Passed On: African American Mourning Stories (2002), Duke UP (2nd printing (2002); paperback (2003).) .
  3. Cruel Enough to Stop the Blood: Global Feminisms and the U.S. Body Politic, or: 'They Done Taken My Blues and Gone', Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, vol. 7 no. 1 (2006) .
  4. Accidental Communities: Race, Emergency Medicine and the Problem of Polyheme, The American Journal of Bioethics, vol. 6 no. 3 (2006), Taylor and Francis .
  5. DNA and the Romance of Race, National Public Radio--News and Notes (February, 2006) .
  6. W.E.B.DuBois and The Right to Privacy, Annals of Scholarship (forthcoming 2006) .
  7. The Death of Culture, The Massachusetts Review (Spring, 1999), pp. 31-41 .
  8. Coda: Bodies of Evidence, http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/, edited by Janet Jakobsen, S&F (Scholar and Feminist) Online, vol. 4 no. 3 (Summer, 2006), Barnard College .
  9. The Race for Theory, in Literature on the Move: Comparing Diasporic Ethnicities in Europe and the Americas, edited by Dominique Marcais, et al, vol. 97 (Winter, 2002), pp. 347-354, Heidelberg: Universitaetsverlag Carl .