B.A., Northwestern, J.D., Michigan, M.A., Ph.D., Duke

Professor Shockley’s scholarly writings include “All of the Above: Multiple Choice and African American Poetry,” Rainbow Darkness: An Anthology of African American Poetry (Keith Tuma, ed., 2005) and the forthcoming essays “The Horrors of Homelessness: Gothic Doubling in Kincaid’s Lucy and Brontë’s Villette,” Jamaica Kincaid and Caribbean Double Crossings (Linda Lang-Peralta, ed.), and “Buried Alive: Gothic Homelessness, Black Women’s Sexuality, and (Living) Death in Ann Petry’s The Street,” African American Review.  Her poetry appears in a half-red sea (2006) and The Gorgon Goddess (2001), both published by Carolina Wren Press, and in numerous journals and anthologies.  She is at work on a study of the relationship of race and innovation in African American poetry, in which she reconsiders the meaning and significance of “black aesthetics” for the tradition.

Race and Innovation in African American Poetry

Twenty-First Century African American Literature

Domestic Ideology and African American Literature

Creative Writing (Poetry)

Black Women Writers

The African-American Long Poem