Professor Joyce A. Joyce
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A 1995 recipient of an American Book Award for Literary Criticism for her collection of essays Warriors, Conjurers, and Priests: Defining African-centered Literary Criticism, Joyce A. Joyce is also the author of Richard Wright’s Art of Tragedy, Ijala: Sonia Sanchez and the African Poetic Tradition, and Black Studies as Human Studies: Critical Essays and Interviews. Having received her Ph. D. from the University of Georgia in 1979, Professor Joyce taught for ten years at the University of Maryland—College Park, three years at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln, and five years at Chicago State University where she was professor of English, associate director of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center, coordinator of the Honors Program, and chairperson of the Black Studies Department.
She has published articles on Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Arthur P. Davis, Toni Cade Bambara, E. Ethelbert Miller, Gil Scott-Heron, and Sonia Sanchez. Her fields of expertise include African-American literary criticism, African-American poetry and fiction, feminist theory, and Black lesbian writers.
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