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Thadious M. Davis is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is best known for her work on African American and Southern literature.

Education and career

Davis has a B.S. from Southern University and an M.A. from Atlanta University. She earned her Ph.D. from Boston University.

She has been a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Brown University, and Vanderbilt University, where she held the position of the Gertrude Conway Vanderbilt Professor of English. As of 2022, she is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

Davis has been a fellow at multiple libraries, including the Newberry Library in Chicago, the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, where she held the R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellowship.

Works

Davis is known for her writings on race, gender, and region. She wrote a biography of Nella Larsen, Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance, and edited the Penguin Classics editions of both of Larsen's books: Passing and Quicksand.

Davis's 2009 book, Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner's Go Down Moses, received honorable mention for the William Sanders Scarborough Prize Winners given by from the Modern Language Association. Her 2014 book, Southscapes: Geographies of Race, Region, Literature focuses on writings by black southern writers from Mississippi and Louisiana.

Selected publications

• Nella Larsen, novelist of the Harlem Renaissance : a woman's life unveiled. Louisiana State University Press. 1996. ISBN 0-8071-2070-7. OCLC 611732169.
• Davis, Thadious M. (2009). Games of Property : Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner's 'Go Down, Moses'. Duke University Press Books. OCLC 743402243.
• Davis, Thadious M. (2014). Southscapes Geographies of Race, Region, and Literature. The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-4696-0255-4. OCLC 957516662.

Honors and awards

In 1994, Davis received the Anna Julia Cooper Award for Feminist Scholarship from Spelman College. In 1995, the College Language Association presented Davis with an award for creative scholarship for her book on Nella Larsen.

Davis received a lifetime achievement award from the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature in 2007. In 2017, she received the Callaloo's Lifetime Achievement Award for American Literary and Cultural Studies.

References

1. ^ Hart, James D.; Wendy Martin; Danielle Hinrichs, eds. (2021). "Davis, Thadious M. (1944-)". The concise Oxford companion to American literature (Second ed.). Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-187211-2. OCLC 1234024826.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
2. Davis, Thadious M. (1986). "Faulkner's 'Negro' : art and the Southern context, 1926-1936 | WorldCat.org". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2023-02-11.
3. ^ "Department of English | Thadious Davis". www.english.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
4. Sullivan, Mecca Jamilah (2019-08-18). "Practices of Imagination: Learning from the Vision of Thadious Davis". Women's Studies. 48 (6): 593–599. doi:10.1080/00497878.2019.1639506. ISSN 0049-7878. S2CID 203081309.
5. "William Sanders Scarborough Prize Winners". Modern Language Association. Retrieved 2023-02-11.
6. "Southscapes | Thadious M. Davis". University of North Carolina Press. Retrieved 2023-02-11.
7. Reviews of Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance:
   • Pavletich, JoAnn (1997). "Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman's Life Unveiled. Thadious M. Davis". MELUS. 22 (4): 198. doi:10.2307/468003. ISSN 0163-755X. JSTOR 468003.
   • McLendon, Jacquelyn Y. (1996). "Review of Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman's Life Unveiled". African American Review. 30 (3): 478–481. doi:10.2307/3042545. ISSN 1062-4783. JSTOR 3042545.
   • Roses, Lorraine Elena (1994). "Stranger than Fiction". The Women's Review of Books. 12 (3): 21. doi:10.2307/4022019. ISSN 0738-1433. JSTOR 4022019.
   • Walker, Robbie Jean (1995-03-26). "Harlem Renaissance writer receives praise she deserves". The Montgomery Advertiser. p. 80. Retrieved 2023-02-11.
8. Reviews of Games of Property:
   • Fowler, Doreen (2005). Davis (ed.). "Interpreting Faulkner in a Postmodern Age". The Southern Literary Journal. 38 (1): 135–141. ISSN 0038-4291. JSTOR 20078433.
   • Ramsey, D. Matthew (2004). "Review of Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner's "Go Down, Moses"". Modern Fiction Studies. 50 (3): 748–750. ISSN 0026-7724. JSTOR 26286319.
   • Pilditch, Jan (2004). "Review of Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender and Faulkner's Go Down, Moses". Australasian Journal of American Studies. 23 (1): 123–125. ISSN 1838-9554. JSTOR 41053976.
9. Reviews of Southscapes: Geographies of Race, Region, and Literature:
   • Bone, Martyn (2012). "Review of Southscapes: Geographies of Race, Region, and Literature". African American Review. 45 (4): 662–665. doi:10.1353/afa.2012.0098. ISSN 1062-4783. JSTOR 23783526. S2CID 160073948.
   • Teutsch, Matthew (2014). "Review of SOUTHSCAPES: Geographies of Race, Region, and Literature". Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. 55 (3): 382–383. ISSN 0024-6816. JSTOR 24396725.
   • Dugan, Olga (2013). "Renegade Poetics, Southscapes, and the Poetry of History in Natasha Trethewey's Thrall". The Journal of African American History. 98 (2): 304–319. doi:10.5323/jafriamerhist.98.2.0304. ISSN 1548-1867. JSTOR 10.5323/jafriamerhist.98.2.0304. S2CID 148182531.

• Living people
• 1944 births
• 21st-century African-American academics
• 21st-century American academics
• African-American women writers
• Atlanta University alumni
• Boston University alumni
• Brown University faculty
• Southern University alumni
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty
• University of Pennsylvania faculty
• Vanderbilt University faculty