Sharon Holland

Sharon Holland is Associate Professor of African American Studies and English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity (Duke, 2000) which won the Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association in 2002. She has published in the fields of African American, feminist, and queer studies and is currently at work on a second book project, “Between Fabrication and Generation[s]”: Biology, Sex and Habitual Non-Belonging. Holland is also at work on a novel, How Bubba the Socrates Got to be Neither.