#  Glenda R. Carpio 

Powell M. Cabot Professor of English and Professor of African and African American Studies

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Glenda R. Carpio is Professor of African and African American Studies and English at Harvard University. Her book, ***Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery*** was published by Oxford University Press in 2008. She is currently working on a book on immigration, expatriation, and exile in American literature. Professor Carpio recently co-edited ***African American Literary Studies: New Texts, New Approaches, New Challenges*** (2011) with Professor Werner Sollors; see <http://www.amazon.de/African-American-Literary-Studies-Approaches/dp/382>.

Professor Carpio started her teaching career in Compton, California where she taught 8th grade English and 4th grade through the Teach for America program. She recently received Harvard University's Abramson Award for Excellence and Sensitivity in Undergraduate Teaching.

Professor Carpio received her Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and her B.A. was earned at Vassar College.



 

 

 





 

 

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