Karla FC Holloway

Karla FC Holloway is the William R. Kenan Professor of English, Law, and Women’s Studies at Duke University. Her research and teaching focus on the intersections of literature, law, gender, and ethics in African American cultural studies. She is the author of six books including Passed On: African American Mourning Stories – A Memorial. Her most recent manuscript, BookMarks: Reading in Black and White – A Memoir will be released this fall. Professor Holloway’s recent essay: “Accidental Communities: Race, Emergency Medicine, and the Problem of Polyheme” appears in the most recent issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. Professor Holloway is a core faculty member of Duke University’s Institute on the Care at the End of Life, an affiliated faculty of African and African-American Studies and serves on the Greenwall Foundation’s Advisory Board in Bioethics; the Center for Documentary Study at Duke University; and the Princeton University Advisory Council: Program in the Study of Women and Gender.