Simone A. James Alexander - Seton Hall University

Simone A. James Alexander is Chair and Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Seton Hall University, NJ, where she teaches courses in Russian, Caribbean, African, and African American Literature. She is the author of Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women (University of Missouri Press, 2001); she has also authored “Walking on Thin Ice: The Il/legitimacy of Race and Racial Issues in the Classroom” (SUNY 2003), and “Caribbean Women Writers and Activism: Amy Jacques Garvey, Claudia Jones, and Audre Lorde,” which appeared in Sparks of Resistance, Flames of Change: Black Communities and Activism. Her articles have appeared in the journals African Literature Association Bulletin, Langston Hughes Colloquy, Middle Atlantic Writers Association Review, Revista Interamericana. Forthcoming are articles in Black Praxis and African American Review and two book chapters. She has presented her research at numerous national and international conferences and was an invited speaker at various universities, including NYU, Columbia, and Wittenberg University. Her current manuscript is titled Migrating Bodies: Women Writers Narrating Diasporic Subjects.