Director
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, forthcoming from University Press of Mississippi. She is currently completing An Honest Man and a Good Writer: The Critical Reception of James Baldwin, 1963-2000 (under contract with Camden House Press). Her research interests 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.
Faculty
Hollis France
Political Science
Valerie Frazier
English
George Hopkins
History
Roneka Matheny
Adjunct
Jack Parsons
Political Science
Alison Piepmeier
Director, Women’s and Gender Studies
English
Bernard Powers
History
Eric Thomas
Religious Studies
Joy Vandervort-Cobb
Theater
Anthony Williams
Philosophy