Department of English

Profile

Conseula Francis (PhD, University of Washington, 2002) teaches courses
in African American literature, as well as freshman writing. Her first
book, Conversations with Octavia Butler, will be published by University
Press of Mississippi in December 2009. Her second book, An Honest Man
and a Good Writer: The Critical Reception of James Baldwin, is
forthcoming from Camden House Press. Her teaching and research
interests include African American intellectual thought in the twentieth
century, the African American novel, African American science fiction,
and comic books. Her current scholarship focuses in the contemporary
African American commercial fiction.

Recent Publications and Presentations

An Honest Man and a Good Writer: The Critical Reception of James Baldwin. Camden House Press. Under Contract.

Conversations with Octavia Butler. University Press of Mississippi. Under Contract

"'The easiest place to get lost': Biracial Characters as Signifying Metaphors in Danzy Senna's Caucasia." South Central Modern Language Association Conference, New Orleans, LA, October 2004.

"Calling All Black People: The Black Arts Movement's Discursive Revision of Difference." Twentieth Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, February 2004.