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Julie E.
Moody-Freeman is an Associate Professor in African and Black Diaspora
Studies. She received her Ph.D. in Literature and Cultural Studies at the
University of Illinois at Chicago. Her teaching and research interests
include studies in Black Feminist Theory, the Rhetoric of Colonialism and
Post-Colonialism, African American popular romance fiction, and Black
Speculative fiction.
Moody-Freeman’s publications include co-edited books The Black Imagination,
Science Fiction, and the Speculative (Routledge, 2011) and The Black
Imagination: Science Fiction, Futurism, and the Speculative (Peter Lang,
2011) as well as a co-edited special issue of African and Black Diaspora
Studies: an international journal (Routledge, July 2015) on “Remapping the
Black Atlantic: Diaspora, (Re) Writings of Race and Space.” She has also
published journal articles and book chapters on Belizean novelist Zee Edgell in
Canadian Women’s Studies/les cahiers de la femme’s special issue on
Women and the Black Diaspora, in Macomerè: journal of the Association for
Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars, in African Identities, in Seeking
the Self-Encountering the Other: Diasporic Narrative and the Ethics of
Representation, and in the Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora,
co-edited by Carole Boyce Davies and Babacar M’bow.