Kelly Baker Josephs

Kelly Baker Josephs

Associate Professor, English, City University of New York

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Kelly Baker Josephs, Associate Professor of English, specializes in World Anglophone Literature with an emphasis on Caribbean Literature. She teaches courses in Anglophone Caribbean Literature, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Literatures of the African Diaspora, and Gender Studies. Her book Disturbers of the Peace: Representations of Insanity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (U of Virginia P, 2013), considers the ubiquity of madmen and madwomen in Caribbean literature between 1959 and 1980. Professor Josephs is Director of the York College Honors Program and Editor for sx salon: a small axe literary platform.

Working Group Affiliation

The Digital Black Atlantic