Johanna X. K. Garvey

Johanna X. K. Garvey is associate professor of English, founding codirector of Black Studies, and founding codirector of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Fairfield University. She is coeditor (with Caroline A. Brown) of Madness in Black Women’s Diasporic Fiction: Aesthetics of Resistance, has published in many scholarly journals including Callaloo, Anthurium, and Textual Practice,and has contributed to numerous volumes, including Black Imagination and the Middle Passage; Black Liberation in the Americas; Emerging Perspectives on Maryse Condé: A Writer of Her Own; and Black Female Sexualities.