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Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall
President, National Women's Studies Association
Keynote Address Speaker
Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall will be the keynote speaker for the Conference on the Black
Experience. Guy-Sheftall was recently named the president
of the National Women's
Studies Association, a professional organization that is "dedicated to leading the
field of women's studies, as well as its teaching, learning, research, and service
wherever they be found." Dr. Guy-Sheftall is the founding director of the Spelman
College Women’s Research and Resource Center and the Anna Julia Cooper Professor
of Women’s Studies. She has published a number of texts within African American
and Women’s Studies which have been noted as seminal works by other scholars, including
the first anthology on Black women’s literature, Sturdy Black Bridges: Visions of
Black Women in Literature (Doubleday, 1980), which she coedited with Roseann P.
Bell and Bettye Parker Smith; her dissertation, Daughters of Sorrow: Attitudes Toward
Black Women, 1880-1920 (Carlson, 1991); Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American
Feminist Thought (New Press, 1995); and an anthology she co-edited with Rudolph
Byrd entitled Traps: African American Men on Gender and Sexuality (Indiana University
Press, 2001). Her most recent publication is a book coauthored with Dr. Johnnetta
Betsch Cole, Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women’s Equality in African American
Communities (Random House, 2003). In 1983 she became founding co-editor of Sage:
A Scholarly Journal of Black Women, devoted exclusively to the experiences of women
of African descent.
Conference Panel Sessions will feature independent scholars, professors, graduate
and undergraduate students in a variety of topical areas of women’s contributions
in North America across discipline areas. |
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