AALC Faculty
Licia
Calloway
A native of San Jose, California, Dr. Calloway did her undergraduate
work at Duke University and received her Ph.D. from the University of
Michigan. Her specialty is African American Literature, particularly
that between Reconstruction and the Harlem Renaissance. Her book, Black
Family (Dys)Function in Novels by Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, &
Fannie Hurst, on maternity and class relations as depicted in novels
written by women during the Harlem Renaissance, was published in 2003.
Julia
Eichelberger
Dr. Eichelberger received her Ph.D. in English from the University of
North Carolina and began teaching African American literature at the
College in 1992. She also teaches courses in American literature,
Southern literature, and contemporary poetry. Her 1999 book, Phrophets of Recognition, includes
chapters on Toni Morrison and Ralph Ellison.
Susan
Farrell
Dr. Farrell received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.
Her dissertation, "Ethnic Women Writers in Post-Civil Rights Era
America" includes chapters on contemporary women writers from four
different ethnic backgrounds: African Americans Gayle Jones and Toni
Morrison, Chinese American Maxine Hong Kingston, Chicanas Cherrie
Moraga, Helena Maria Viramontes, and Sandra Cisneros, and Native
American Louise Erdrich. She has published articles on Toni
Morrison, Alice Walker, and Dori Sanders, among others.
Consuela
Francis
Conseula Francis earned her Ph.D. at the University of Washington in
2002. She came to the College of Charleston that same year, and teaches
courses in American literature, African American literature, women's
studies, and composition. She also coordinates the undergraduate
interdisciplinary minor in African American Studies. Her current
research focuses on the critical reception of James Baldwin and his
work.
Valerie
Frazier
Dr. Valerie Frazier received her B.A. in English from the College of
Charleston and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of
Georgia. She teaches composition, American, African American, and
ethnic literatures. Her research centers on contemporary African
American, postcolonial, and women’s literature. In addition, she is
currently working on a book on the critical reception of Gwendolyn
Brooks.
Simon
Lewis
Professor Lewis completed his doctorate at the University of Florida in
1996 and has been teaching African and Third World Literature at the
College of Charleston since then. Lewis also edits the literary journal
Illuminations: An International
Magazine of Contemporary Writing.