Jean Yokes Woodhead Faculty Fellow
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“The (In)Visible Acquisitions of Ann Allen Shockley: A Black Feminist Biography”
The (In)Visible Acquisitions of Ann Allen Shockley: A Black Feminist Biography explores the literary and professional life of archivist, librarian and writer Ann Allen Shockley. She is most often remembered as the author of Loving Her (1974), the first published novel with a Black lesbian protagonist. Despite a multi-genre corpus about archival and library sciences, politics, and Black sexualities, she is largely overlooked in scholarly and popular considerations of Black feminist thought. This intellectual biography centers Shockley’s life and letters to analyze the material and epistemological structures that memorialize some Black feminist intellectuals and creatives while obscuring others.
Jennifer Jones is an Associate Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies.
