Dr.Angelita Reyes
Professor of African and African American Studies/ English ; Affliliate Faculty in Women's Studies and Languages and Literatures
Arrived at ASU in 2002
Ph.D. , University of Iowa
Office: Wilson Hall room 159
Phone (480) 965-9777
E-mail: angelita.reyes@asu.edu
Dr. Reyes is particularly interested in the issues of race, class, gender, sexuality and ethnicity—intersectionality. Blending the personal and the historical, the practical and the theoretical, her recent book Mothering Across Cultures: Postcolonial Representations explores mothering as a paradigm of progressive feminisms.
She is currently working on a book-length illustrated study about the 19th century feminist abolitionist, Sarah Parker Remond that intends to highlight Remond's self exile in England and Italy. Dr. Reyes has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships among them being a Rockefeller fellowship, a Fulbright Lecturing and Research award, a More-Alumni Distinguised Teaching Professorship award, and an American Council of Learned Societies travel grant. She is also the recipient of a national award for her contribution to higher education from the Clinton White House administration.
Biography
2002-present: Professor of African and African American Studies / English; Faculty
Affiliation with the Department of Languages and Literatures and Women’s Studies
Arizona State University; Graduate School Faculty
1993- 2002: Associate Professor of African American and African Studies, Women’s Studies and English; Morse Alumni Professor of Distinguished Teaching; Member of the Graduate Faculty, Center for Advanced Feminist Studies; Department of French & Italian Affiliation; Academy of Distinguished Teachers ; University of Minnesota
1993 Tenured: Associate Professor of African American and African Studies, English and Women’s Studies; Member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers; Acting Chair Women’s Studies Department, Spring 1993 ; University of Minnesota
1989-1993: University of Minnesota, Assistant Professor.
1984-1989: Pennsylvania State University, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature /English; Women’s Studies Affiliation; Associate member of the Graduate School.
Visiting Appointments
1996-1997: Fulbright Senior Lecturer, Univérsité Nationale du Bénin, Faculté des
Lettres, Arts et Science Humaines. Cotonou, Bénin, West Africa
1996: June-August; Visiting Professor, Nottingham Trent University, England
1989-1990: The University of Iowa, Rockefeller Humanities Scholar, Women's Studies
Courses Taught
Women Searching for Global Justice
Francophone Identities
Critical Race and Gender Theory
Seminar: Toni Morrison
Women's Autobiographical Narratives
Black Women Writers Cross Culturally
Black Women Writers in the US
Caribbean Narratives
Selected Publications
Mothering Across Cultures: Postcolonial Representations. University of Minnesota Press, 2002. 244 pp
Awarded Choice Outstanding Academic Title in Language and Literature from the American Library Association 2003
Global Voices: Contemporary Literature from the Non-Western World. Eds. Arthur Biddle, Gloria Bien, Miriam Cooke, Vinay Dharwadker, Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria Mbuelelo Mzamane and Angelita Reyes . Printice Hall/Simon & Schuster 1995. 844pp
“History Telling at the Kitchen Table: Private Joseph Shields, WW II and Mother-Centered Memory in the Late Twentieth Century. Robert Jefferson and Angelita Reyes. Journal of Family History. 27:4 2002. pp. 430-458
“Using History as Artifact to Situate Beloved’s Unknown Woman: Margaret Garner.” in Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Toni Morrison. Ed. Nellie Y. McKay. New York: Modern Language Association, 1997. 77-85
"From a Lineage of Southern Women: She Has Left Us Empty and Full of Her." Unrelated Kin: Race and Gender in Women's Personal Narratives. Ed. Gwen Etter-Lewis. Routledge 1995. 15-30
"The Epistolary Voice and Voices of Indigenous Feminism in Mariama Ba's Une si longue lettre." Black Women's Diaspora Writing. Ed, Carole Boyce Davies. New York UP, 1995. 195-217
"Reading Carnival as an Archaeological Site for Memory in Praisesong for the Widow and The Chosen Place, The Timeless People." Memory, Narrative and Identity. Eds. A. Singh and J.T. Skerrett, Jr., Northeastern UP, 1994. 179-197
"Christophine, Nanny, and Creole Difference: Reconsidering Jean Rhys's West Indian Landscape and Wide Sargasso Sea." On the Road to Guinea: Essays in Black Comparative Literature. Edward Ako, Ed. London: Yaoundé UP, 1993. 143-175
Academic Distinctions Achieved
Awarded Choice Outstanding Academic Title in Language and Literature from the American Library Association 2003
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University: Distinguished Teaching Award Nomination. 2004 Women's World Congress, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda; Keynote speaker. 2002 Faculty Excellence in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities. College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, 2001 Academy of Distinguished Teachers, University of Minnesota, 1995- 2002
United States President Hall of Fame Award for Education . US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) 1999
Morse-Minnesota Alumni Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education, 1996; University of Minnesota.
Breaking Silence: US and International Women of Color Award for Achievement and Dedication 1996
Nomination: Outstanding Faculty Award for Teaching, College of Liberal Arts, 1995; University of Minnesota
Bush Foundation Project Grant on Excellence and Diversity in Teaching 1992 : "UN/Linking Worlds: Women Writing in Postcolonial Time and Space” College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota
Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Collaborative Fellowship, University of Iowa: “History Telling at the Kitchen Table: Private Joseph Shields, WW II and Mother-centered Memory” Collaborative project with Robert Jefferson, Department of History, University of Iowa. Summer 2000
Single Semester Leave. Spring (January-May) 2000; project on Moravian Slave narratives. U of Minnesota
Humanities Institute UMN Grant . Francophone Series. 1999
College of Liberal Arts research grant, University of Minnesota. Fall quarter 1997; “Returning to the Door of No Return”
United States Information Agency (USIA) travel & research grant to 14th International Conference of African Literature and the English Language. Calabar, Nigeria. 1997.
United States Information Agency (USIA) grant to participate in conference on “Borderlands: Where America and Africa Meet” at the Centre Culturel Americain, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, West Africa. 1997.
Fulbright-Senior Lecturing/Research award to Benin, West Africa 1996-1997; Université Nationale du Bénin;
Faculty Mentor: Undergraduate Research Opportunities Award: Research Assistant for Winter and Spring 1996; Undergraduate: Helen Doss. Research Project: "Creating Truth and Constructing Reality: African American and Caribbean Women Speak Nations."
President's Faculty Research Award UMN 1996-1997: "Unusual Woman: Race, Gender and the Politics of Suicide."
Single Quarter Leave UMN Fall 1994
Institute of International Services and Programs UMN travel grant to Tel Aviv University 1995.
University of Minnesota Faculty Summer Research Fellowship for travel to archives and Research Assistant for academic year: National Library of Scotland and Edinburgh University; 1993.
University of Minnesota Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, for travel to archives: départementales de la Guadeloupe, Basse-Terre; Musée Schoelcher, Pointe-à-Pitre; 1992.
University of Minnesota Grant-in-aid for Research, 1991. University of Minnesota Faculty Summer Research Fellowship for travel to archives: National Library of Jamaica; 1990.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania/Library Company of Philadelphia Research Fellowship, 1990. Rockefeller Humanist-in-Residence Fellowship, The University of Iowa, 1989-1990.
National Fellowship Supplement, University of Minnesota; 1989-1990.
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