English Department Faculty

Angela Ards

Associate Professor, English and African & African Diaspora Studies

Director, Journalism Program

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Angela Ards

Ph.D.

Contact

Stokes Hall S443

Telephone: 617-552-3712

Email: angela.ards@bc.edu

Education

  • B.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • M.A., University of California at Los Angeles
  • Ph.D., Princeton University

Research Interests

African American Literature; Contemporary American Literature; Cultural Studies; Literary Journalism; Narratives of Place

Curriculum Vitae

Department

English

Biography

Teaches African American and contemporary American literature, with special interests in cultural studies, literary journalism, and narratives of place. She is the author of Words of Witness: Black Women’s Autobiography in the Post-Brown Era, and her current book project uses oral histories to chronicle the lives of black Americans who bypassed the Great Migration to remain in the South. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research.

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