Kelly Baker Josephs

phone: (410) 516-3500   email: kbj@jhu.edu
Office: Greenhouse 204

Kelly Baker Josephs is the postdoctoral fellow at The Center for Africana Studies for the 2008-09 academic year.  She specializes in World Anglophone Literature with an emphasis on Caribbean Literature.  She joins Johns Hopkins University from York College, The City University of New York, where she teaches courses in Anglophone Caribbean Literature, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Literatures of the African Diaspora, and Gender Studies.

While at the Center for Africana Studies, Dr. Josephs will be working on her book manuscript, "Defining Madnesses: Representations of Insanity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature," which considers the ubiquity of madmen and madwomen in Caribbean literature between 1959 and 1980. She will also be coordinating the Critical Thought Collective discussions.