DoVeanna S. Fulton, Ph.D.
Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies
Email: dsfulton@nsu.edu
Expertise: African American Literature and Culture, Black Women’s Oral and Written Discourse, Black Feminist Theory, African American Religious History and Practice, Black Liberation and Womanist Theology, 19th Century African American Activism and Resistance, Black Temperance Activism, Black Oral Traditions, Black Narratives of Enslavement, Black Recovery Literature and History
Courses: Introduction to African American Studies, Black Women’s Intellectual Thought, Black Religious Practice and Worship, Research Methods, African American Literary History
Bio: DoVeanna Fulton (Ph.D., University of Minnesota) is the author of three books, Speaking Power: Black Feminist Orality in Women’s Narratives of Slavery, (2006) and Speaking Lives, Authoring Texts: Three African American Women’s Oral Slave Narratives (co-edited with Reginald Pitts, 2009) and Sapphire's Literary Breakthrough: Erotic Literacies, Feminist Pedagogies, Environmental Justice Perspectives (co-edited with Elizabeth McNeil, Neal Lester, and Lynette Myles. 2012), which examine written and oral traditions in African American women’s life narratives in slavery and beyond. Additionally, she is the editor of the Bedford College Edition of Nella Larsen’s novel Quicksand (2016) and published numerous book chapters and articles in distinguished journals and anthologies. She has several projects in progress, including “Radical Prohibition: African Americans Writing Race and the Anti-Drink Movement, 1860-1919,” for which she received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Fellowship from the American Association of University Women, and her latest project, “Victory, Victory Shall Be Mine: Justice and Redemption and the Gospel Aesthetic in African American Culture.” Dr. Fulton is a past President of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW).
Dr. Fulton brings over twenty-five years of experience as an academic leader, educator, and scholar dedicated to advancing academic excellence, access, and community engagement in deeply diverse environments. Dr. Fulton is a past President of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW), from which she received the Outstanding Leadership Award in 2018. She is a fellow of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), American Association of University Women (AAUW), the Commission on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), and the Andrew Mellon Foundation. Dr. Fulton has served as a reviewer for the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and numerous peer-reviewed journals and book publishers. She has served on many boards including the Hampton Roads Biomedical Research Consortium; WHRO Community Advisory Board; the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences; the Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW); the National Society for Gifted and Talented; and Julia C. Hester House, Inc. in Houston, Texas.
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