Associate Professor of English and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Delaware
About
Emily Davis received her PhD in English with a graduate concentration in global and international studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is currently an associate professor of English at the University of Delaware (UD). Her book, Rethinking the Romance Genre: Global Intimacies in Contemporary Literary and Visual Culture, was published by Palgrave in 2013. Her work has appeared in Camera Obscura, Genders, Textual Practice, and College Literature, among other venues. As a member of UD's Executive Council for Diversity, she leads the faculty senate diversity & inclusion committee, which has revised the university multicultural requirement and integrated diversity competency into the required first year seminar.
Current Work:
Davis is currently working on two book projects: the first is about how global fiction can offer non-Eurocentric models for understanding the meaning of the category of the "human" in human rights discourse, and the second is about the contemporary African publishing industry.
Research Area Keyword(s):
European and American imperialism, globalization, gender and sexuality, cultural studies, human rights
