Associate Professor, English and African & African Diaspora Studies
Director, Journalism Program
Stokes Hall S443
Telephone: 617-552-3712
Email: angela.ards@bc.edu
African American Literature; Contemporary American Literature; Cultural Studies; Literary Journalism; Narratives of Place
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.