Shirley Moody-Turner
309 Burrowes Building
Mailroom: 430 Burrowes Building
Mailroom: 430 Burrowes Building
Mailroom: 430 Burrowes Building

Spring 2025 Office Hours
On Sabbatical Leave - Fall 2024; HI Residency - Spring 2025Curriculum Vitae
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Shirley Moody-Turner is an associate professor of English and African American Studies and founding co-director, with Gabrielle Foreman, of the Center for Black Digital Research/#DigBlk. 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 (Cambridge University Press). Most recently, she edited the Portable Anna Julia Cooper (Penguin-Random House 2022) bringing together writings across the long career of this visionary educator and intellectual and is currently at work on an interpretive biography of Cooper for Yale University Press. She co-directs the Cooper-Du Bois Mentoring Program and is a co-PI on the College of the Liberal Arts' Just Transformations Mellon Grant.
Areas of Specialization
African American Literature and Language
African American literature, Black intellectual and literary histories, Black women's biography, folklore studies
Visual Culture
Documentary film, visual literacies, popular imagery