Catherine John

Catherine John is an assistant professor of African Diaspora Studies in the English Department. She is also affiliated with the Film and Video Studies Program as well as the African/African American Studies Program here at the University of Oklahoma. Her courses and research focus primarily on 20th Century African American and African Caribbean literature and culture. Her articles include: "Complicity, Revolution and Black Female Writing" in RACE & CLASS, Volume 40, Number 4, April-June 1999, "Neocoloniality, Literary Representation and the Problem of Disciplinary Solutions" Decolonizing the Academy, Ed., Carole Boyce Davies, New Jersey: Africa World Press, December, 2002. Her article, "Maybe/Baby It's a Big Mama Thang: Reclaiming the Power of the Erotic from the Demonic Ground of Black Female Sexuality" is under consideration for a forthcoming Hip-Hop Issue of the journal Callaloo. Her book entitled, CLEAR WORD & THIRD SIGHT: Folk Groundings and Alternate Consciousness in African Caribbean Writing is forthcoming with Duke University Press.