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Conseula Francis is director of the African American Studies Program and associate professor of English at the College of Charleston. She earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington in 2002, and taught there and at Antioch University in Seattle before coming to the College of Charleston.

Her publications include “(Re)Making a Difference: The Harlem Renaissance and the Anxiety of 1926,” published in the Langston Hughes Review and Conversations with Octavia Butler, from University Press of Mississippi. Her book An Honest Man and a Good Writer: The Critical Reception of James Baldwin, 1963-2000 is forthcoming from Camden House Press. She is currently researching contemporary African American romance and erotica. Her research interests also include black intellectual thought and literary movements, blackness in the American imagination, the African American novel, and black science fiction and comic books.

She teaches African American literature courses, as well surveys of American literature and the graphic novel, at the College of Charleston.