{"id":220,"date":"2014-04-27T18:46:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T22:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.spelman.edu\/beverlyguysheftall\/?page_id=220"},"modified":"2014-07-25T12:08:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T16:08:03","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.spelman.edu\/beverlyguysheftall\/bio-and-cv\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"

BEVERLY GUY-SHEFTALL, PH.D.<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women\u2019s Studies and
\nDirector of the Women\u2019s Research and Resource Center, Spelman College<\/p>\n

BEVERLY GUY-SHEFTALL <\/strong>is founding director of the Women\u2019s Research and Resource Center (since 1981) and Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women\u2019s Studies at Spelman College.\u00a0 She is also an adjunct professor at Emory University\u2019s Institute for Women\u2019s Studies where she teaches graduate courses in their doctoral program. She is currently President of the National Women\u2019s Studies Association (NWSA).<\/p>\n

At the age of sixteen, Guy-Sheftall entered Spelman College where she majored in English and minored in secondary education.\u00a0 After graduation with honors, she attended Wellesley College for a fifth year of study in English.\u00a0 After a year at Wellesley, she entered Atlanta University to pursue a master\u2019s degree in English.\u00a0 Her thesis was entitled \u201cFaulkner\u2019s Treatment of Women in His Major Novels.\u201d\u00a0 A year later Guy-Sheftall began her first teaching job in the Department of English at Alabama State University in Montgomery, Alabama.\u00a0 In 1971 she returned to her alma mater, Spelman College, and joined the English Department.<\/p>\n

Guy-Sheftall has published a number of texts within African American and Women\u2019s Studies which include the first anthology on Black women\u2019s literature, Sturdy Black Bridges: Visions of Black Women in Literature (Doubleday, 1979), which she coedited with Roseann P. Bell and Bettye Parker Smith; her dissertation, Daughters of Sorrow: Attitudes Toward Black Women, 1880-1920 (Carlson, 1991); Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought (New Press, 1995); an anthology she coedited with Rudolph\u00a0 P. Byrd entitled Traps: African American Men on Gender and Sexuality (Indiana University Press, 2001).\u00a0 Her most recent publication is a coauthored monograph (with Johnnetta Betsch Cole), Gender Talk: The Struggle for Equality in African American Communities, which was published by Random House in 2003. \u00a0Upcoming publications include an anthology of Audre Lorde\u2019s writings (with Rudolph P. Byrd and Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Oxford University Press); a new edition of But Some of Us Are Brave (<\/em>with Stanlie James and Frances Foster, Feminist Press); and a collection of writings on the race\/gender debate during the 2008 U.S. presidential election (with Johnnetta Betsch Cole, SUNY Press). \u00a0In 1983 she became founding editor of Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women which was devoted exclusively to the experiences of women of African descent and published from 1983-1996.<\/p>\n

Guy-Sheftall is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, among them a National Kellogg Fellowship; a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for dissertations in Women\u2019s Studies; and Spelman\u2019s Presidential Faculty Award for outstanding scholarship. She has been involved with the national women\u2019s studies movement since its inception and provided leadership for the establishment of the first women\u2019s studies major at a historically Black college.\u00a0 Beyond the academy, she has been involved in a number of advocacy organizations which include the National Black Women\u2019s Health Project, the National Council for Research on Women, and the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, on whose boards she has served.\u00a0 In her role as Director of Spelman\u2019s Women\u2019s Center, she has also been involved with the development of student activism around misogynist images of Black women in hip hop as well as a broad range of social justice issues, including reproductive rights and violence against women. She teaches women\u2019s studies courses, including feminist theory and global Black feminisms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BEVERLY GUY-SHEFTALL, PH.D. Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women\u2019s Studies and Director of the Women\u2019s Research and Resource Center, Spelman College BEVERLY GUY-SHEFTALL is founding director of the Women\u2019s Research and Resource Center (since 1981) and Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women\u2019s Studies at Spelman College.\u00a0 She is also an adjunct professor at Emory University\u2019s Institute for Women\u2019s Studies where she teaches graduate courses in their doctoral program. She is currently President of the National Women\u2019s Studies Association (NWSA). 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