Carol Allen

The Author: Carol Allen is Associate Professor of English at Long Island University. She is a poet, African Americanist, and Americanist, and has written on African American female humor, Alice Childress, and lynching photography. She is the author of Black Women Intellectuals: Strategies of Nation, Family, and Neighborhood in the Works of Pauline Hopkins, Jessie Fauset, and Marita Bonner and holds a Ph.D. in literature from Rutgers University.

The Author: Carol Allen is Associate Professor of English at Long Island University. She is a poet, African Americanist, and Americanist, and has written on African American female humor, Alice Childress, and lynching photography. She is the author of Black Women Intellectuals: Strategies of Nation, Family, and Neighborhood in the Works of Pauline Hopkins, Jessie Fauset, and Marita Bonner and holds a Ph.D. in literature from Rutgers University. See less