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| Carmen Gillespie (Ph. D. Emory University) is a Professor of English and Executive Director of the Toni Morrison Society. Her research, writing, and teaching interests are in American, African American, and Caribbean literatures and cultures and creative writing. Her book, A Critical Companion to Toni Morrison, was published in 2007 and her poetry chapbook, Lining the Rails, was published in 2008. She is currently at work on two projects, Doormouth: Life Stories from the People of Barbados and "No Clamor for A ...": Vernacular and the Collapse of Meaning in the Fictions of Toni Morrison and has a contract for a book on the life and works of Alice Walker. |
Teaching Interests American literature, African American literatures and culture, African American women writers, Toni Morrison, Caribbean literatures and cultures |
Current Projects and Research Interests Prof. Gillespie is currently working on a book on the life and works of Alice Walker and a poetry volume on the Jonestown suicides. |
Selected Publications Her book, A Critical Companion to Toni Morrison: A Literary Reference to Her Life And Work was published in 2007. Her chapbook, Lining the Rails was published in 2008. Her poem, "Talkin' Back to Mama," was featured in the June 2008 edition of Essence magazine. Recent Awards In 2008, Carmen's book, A Critical Companion to Toni Morrison was nominated for an award as the best single authored book on the works of Toni Morrison. In 2005, Carmen was the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship for Excellence in Poetry. Carmen has been a Fulbright scholar and a Cave Canem Fellow and has received awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
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