Office Location: 304 F Allen
Office Phone: (919) 684-8993
Email Address: karla.holloway@duke.edu

Office Hours:

by appointment only

Education and Interests:

Ph.D., Michigan State University

African American Cultural/Literary Studies, Biocultural Studies, Ethics in Law and Medicine

Karla FC Holloway is James B.Duke Professor of English at Duke University. She also holds appointments in the Law School, Women's Studies, and African & African American Studies. Her research and teaching interests focus on African American cultural studies, biocultural studies, gender, ethics and law. Professor Holloway serves on the Greenwall Foundation's Advisory Board in Bioethics, the board of Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies, and the Princeton University Council on the Study of Women and Gender. She is a member of the advisory board of the National Women's Studies Association Journal. At Duke, she has served as Dean of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Chair (and member) of the Appointments, Promotion and Tenure Committee, member of the Academic Council and the Executive Committee of Academic Council. She is founding co-director (with Cathy Davidson) of the John Hope Franklin Center and the Franklin Humanities Institute, and past co-chair, (with Professor Paula McClain) of the Black Faculty Caucus. Professor Holloway is the author of six books,including Passed On: African-American Mourning Stories -- a cultural and historic look at bereavement, death, dying, and burial in twentieth century African America and BookMarks--Reading in Black and White, A Memoir (2006) completed during a residency in Bellagio, Italy as a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow. BookMarks has been nominated for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for non-fiction. Professor Holloway spent Spring 2008 as Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow at Harvard University's DuBois Institute. Her current manuscript-in-progress is Private Bodies/Public Texts: Race, Gender, & a Narrative Bioethics.

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1.  BookMarks: Reading in Black and White--A Memoir. Rutgers University Press, 2006.
2.  Passed On: African American Mourning Stories. Duke UP, 2002. (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 7.1 (2006)
4. "Accidental Communities: Race, Emergency Medicine and the Problem of Polyheme." The American Journal of Bioethics 6.3Taylor and Francis, (2006)
5. "DNA and the Romance of Race." National Public Radio--News and Notes (February, 2006).
6. "The Death of Culture." The Massachusetts Review  (Spring, 1999): 31-41.
7. "Coda: Bodies of Evidence." S&F (Scholar and Feminist) Online Ed. Janet Jakobsen. http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/4.3Barnard College, (Summer, 2006)
8. "The Race for Theory." Literature on the Move: Comparing Diasporic Ethnicities in Europe and the Americas. Ed. Dominique Marcais, et al. 97Heidelberg: Universitaetsverlag Carl, Winter, 2002. 347-354.

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