Hortense Spillers
Hortense J. Spillers | |
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| Born | April 24, 1942 |
| Education | B.A., University of Memphis, 1964; M.A. in 1966; Ph.D in English, Brandeis University, 1974. |
| Occupation(s) | Professor, literary critic, feminist scholar, black studies scholar |
| Employer | Vanderbilt University |
| Known for | Essays on African-American literature |
| Notable work | "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book", 1987; Comparative American Identities: Race, Sex, and Nationality in the Modern Text, 1991 |
Hortense J. Spillers (born April 24, 1942) is an American literary critic, Black Feminist scholar and the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor at Vanderbilt University. A scholar of the African diaspora, Spillers is known for her essays on African-American literature, collected in Black, White, and In Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2003, and Comparative American Identities: Race, Sex, and Nationality in the Modern Text, a collection edited by Spillers published by Routledge in 1991.