Angelene Jamison-Hall

Angelene Jamison-Hall attended Bennett College for Women in Greensboro, North Carolina, where she received a B. A. in English with a minor in French. She holds an M.A. in English from the University of Cincinnati and a Ph.D. in Black Studies with a concentration in literature and drama from the Union Institute and University, where her major professor was the late Darwin T. Turner. She was Head of the Department of African American Studies from 1981-87, during which time she maintained her teaching and research activities. Having been especially involved in studying black women's literature, she has published criticism and scholarship in such journals and books as the Journal of Negro Education; Western Journal of Black Studies; Critical Essays on Phillis Wheatley; Black Women Writers (1950-1980); World Literature Criticism, 1500 to the Present; and Censored Books: Critical Viewpoints. Professor Jamison-Hall also writes fiction. Having completed a novel reflecting two of her major concerns -- growing up black and female in a rural sharecropping system and experiencing the effects of alcoholism in a small southern segregated town -- she has published excerpts from the manuscript and presented readings locally and nationally. She teaches courses on early and modern black women writers, popular culture, and other areas of African American literature and culture.

Ph.D.: Union Institute and University 1976

Currently, Angelene J. Hall is working on a book detailing the history and development of the Department of African American at the University of Cincinnati. She is continuing her fiction writing and is focusing on the experiences of working class Black women.

-African American Literature, specifically African American fiction and African American Women Writers -Black Popular Culture