Dr. Carolyn Hart

Publications (2005-)

Authored Books:

INTO THE SILENCE the fishing story. An experimental novel blending poetry and prose. Los Angeles, California: Red Hen Press. (Forthcoming).
Aurora. An experimental novel blending poetry and prose. (Under consideration).
This Empty Room. A Collection of Short Stories. (Individual stories under consideration).
Transgressive Texts: Production and Reception of African and Diasporic Literatures. (In progress).
Waiting in the Rain. A novel. (In progress).

Peer-reviewed Publications

Chapters in Books

“The Black Atlantic and Home: Women and Migrations in Lauretta Ngcobo’s And They Didn’t Die and Yvonne Vera’s The Stone Virgins” in (En)Gendering the Black Atlantic: Diasporic Bodies and Identities in Women’s Performance Art, edited by Liamar Durán Almarza and Esther Álvarez López. Routledge. (Forthcoming).
A Postmodern at the Margins: Innovations in Dambudzo Marechera’s Texts” in Dambudzo Marechera: A Celebration, edited by Julie Cairnie and Dobrota Pucherova. Oxford: James Currey. (Forthcoming 2011).
“Images and Spirals: Popular Arts in the Texts of Yvonne Vera” in Language in African Performing And Visual Arts: Global Trends, Issues and Perspectives, edited by Kiarie Wa'Njogu, Sandra Sanneh and Oluseye Adesola. New Haven, Connecticut: Macmillan Center, Yale University. (In press).
“Globalization and Literary Production of Africa and its Diaspora” in The Global Literary Field, edited by Anna Guttman, Michel Hockx, and George Paizis. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006: 107-125.

Articles in International Journals

“Sugar Cane Tales, New Technologies: Production of Opal Palmer Adisa’s Bake Face and other Guava Stories and It Begins with Tears.” (Under consideration).
“In Search of African Literary Aesthetics: Production and Reception of the Texts of Amos Tutuola and Yvonne Vera.” The Journal of African Cultural Studies, edited by Lutz Marten. Vol. 21, no. 2, December 2009: 177-195.

Selected Fiction and Poetry in Literary Journals

“In the heat and the rain: an excerpt from Aurora.” Blackbox Manifold, edited by Alex Houen and Adam Piette. http://www.manifold.group.shef.ac.uk/index.html. July 2010.
“she dreamed; his world shifted: an excerpt from Aurora.” Stride Magazine online, edited by Rupert Loydell. www.stridemagazine.co.uk, December 2009.
“Aurora: an excerpt.” Shearsman Magazine, edited by Tony Frazer. Exeter: Shearsman Books Ltd., October 2008: 74-79.
“From Aurora.” Stride Magazine online, edited by Rupert Loydell. www.stridemagazine.co.uk, February 2008.
Previous publications of fiction including excerpts from the novel INTO THE SILENCE the fishing story have appeared in literary journals in the US such as Black Ice, Sniper Logic, Sub Rosa, and Walkabout.

Grants and Awards (2004 –)

British Academy Overseas Conference Grant to present the paper “Sugar Cane Tales, New Technologies: Production of Opal Palmer Adisa’s Bake Face and other Guava Stories and It Begins with Tears” at the conference “Contemporary Women’s Writing: New Texts, Approaches, and Technologies,” San Diego State University, US, July 7-9, 2010.
Yale University Grant to present the paper “Spirals and Images: Popular Arts in Yvonne Vera’s The Stone Virgins” at the conference “Language in African Performing and Visual Arts: Global Trends, Issues and Perspectives,” Yale University, US, October 2-4, 2008.
Caribbean/American Studies Centre Grant, London Metropolitan University. Awarded full funding to present the paper “Writing the Land and the Body: Language and Sexuality in the Texts of Dambudzo Marechera and Yvonne Vera,” African Literature Association (ALA) Conference, Accra, Ghana, May 2006.
University of London, Central Research Fund Grant for Fieldwork, for fieldwork in Ghana, 2005.
Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) Grant for Fieldwork, for fieldwork in Zimbabwe and South Africa, 2004.
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Fieldwork Award, for fieldwork in Jamaica, 2004.
Previous grants and awards include: William Faulkner Pirate’s Alley Novel Competition Semi-finalist, New Orleans, Louisiana, US; Jovanovich Award, University of Colorado, Boulder; Fellowship in Creative Writing, University of Colorado, Boulder; Transatlantic Review/Henfield Award Nominee (two years), University of Colorado, Boulder; Rocky Mountain Women’s Institute Associateship, Denver, Colorado; Piano Performance Scholarship, University of Colorado, Boulder.

Conferences (2005 –)

“Transgressive Texts North and South: Gayl Jones’ The Healing, Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning and Bessie Head’s A Question of Power,” to be presented at Black States of Desire: Dispossession, Circulation, Transformation, 9^th International Conference of the Collegium for African American Research (CARR), Université Paris, Diderot-Paris 7, April 6 – 9, 2011.
“Sugar Cane Tales, New Technologies: Production of Opal Palmer Adisa’s Bake Face and other Guava Stories and It Begins with Tears,” “Contemporary Women's Writing: New Texts, Approaches, and Technologies,” San Diego State University, US, July 7 – 9, 2010.
“Without a Room of One’s Own: From Gossip to Writing in the Urban Corridors,” Associated Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference, Denver, Colorado, US, April 7 – 9, 2010.
“A Postmodern at the Margin: Language Innovations in Dambudzo Marechera’s Texts,” “Dambudzo Marechera: A Celebration,” Oxford University, UK, May 15 – 17, 2009.
“Innovative Writing: the Who, What When, Where, How and Why of it,” The Second Symposium in Creative Practice and Research, London Metropolitan University, January 2009.
“Spirals and Images: Popular Arts in Yvonne Vera’s The Stone Virgins,” “Language in African Performing And Visual Arts: Global Trends, Issues and Perspectives,” Yale University, US, October 2008.
“Beyond the Local: Women and Migrations in the Novels of Zimbabwean and South African Writers,” African Studies Association (ASA) Conference, SOAS, University of London, September 2006.
“Writing the Land and the Body: Language and Sexuality in the Texts of Dambudzo Marechera and Yvonne Vera,” African Literature Association (ALA) Conference, Accra, Ghana, May 2006.
“Transformations in African Literatures: Amos Tutuola and Yvonne Vera” presented for the panel “Foregrounding Cultural Production in Africa,” AEGIS European Conference on African Studies, University of London, July 2005.
“The Loss of Brer Rabbit and other Tales: Globalization and Literary Production of Africa and its Diaspora,” the AHRB conference “The Social Context of Literary Production and Consumption: The Global Literary Economy,” SOAS, University of London, May 2005.

Events (2005 –)

Organization of a reading/performance by Jamaican writer Opal Palmer Adisa with the Caribbean Studies Centre, London Metropolitan University, February 2007.

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