Hazel Carby

Hazel V. Carby is Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies, Professor of American Studies and Director of the Initiative on Race Gender and Globalization . Her books include Reconstructing Womanhood (OUP, 1987), Race Men (Harvard, 1998), and Cultures in Babylon (Verso, 1999) and her current work–in–progress is Child of Empire. Recent publications include: “Postcolonial Translations,” Ethnic and Racial Studies 30/2 December 2006; “US/UK Special Relationship: The Culture of Torture in Abu Ghraib and Lynching Photographs,” NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art no. 20 (Fall 2006): 60–71; “Becoming a Modern Racialized Subject: ‘detours through our pasts to produce ourselves anew,’ an exploration of the influence of Stuart Hall, forthcoming in Cultural Studies ; and “Lost in Translation,” an introduction to CCCS Working Papers in Cultural Studies: Volume 2, forthcoming, London: Routledge 2007.

WGSS 343 Diasporic Literature
WGSS 411 Fiction of Imaginary or Imminent Futures
WGSS 455 Represenatation & the Black Female