Shirley Moody-Turner

Professional Bio

Shirley Moody-Turner is an associate professor of English and African American Studies. She is interested in creating collaborative spaces to support digital scholarship and recovery work and in working across institutions and engaging various publics to do so. Through a Center for Humanities and Information grant, she worked with the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University to digitize the Anna Julia Cooper papers and was a co-organizer, with project director Jim Casey, of Douglass Day 2020, which transcribed papers from the Anna Julia Cooper collection. She has published numerous works in these areas, including Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation, the co-edited volume, Contemporary African American Literature: The Living Canon, and African American Literature in Transition 1900-1910.  Most recently, she edited the Portable Anna Julia Cooper (Penguin-Random House 2022) and is currently at work on an interpretive biography of Cooper for Yale University Press.