Dr. Priscilla R. Ramsey

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Dr. Priscilla R. Ramsey

Education | Experience | Publications | Reviews

Education:

B.A. Psychology (Major), Sociology (Minor) French (Minor)
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 19108

Ph.D. Literary Studies (An Interdisciplinary Generalist Degree in English)
The American University, Washington, D.C. 20016

Experience:

1985 - Present
Associate Professor
Department of Afro-American Studies
Howard University, Washington, D.C.

1975-1979
Assistant Professor
English Department
Rutgers University, Newark, NJ

Publications:

_____________."John Edgar Wideman's Postmodernist, Culture and Class." Publication Date, (2003)

_____________."Colleen J. Mc Elroy: Poet and Linguist." Dictionary of Literary Biography: Black Poets Volume. (Washington: George Washington University, 2000).

_____________. "John A. Williams," The Encyclopedia of American Literature. (New York: Hunter
College of the City University of New York, 1997.)

_____________. "John Edgar Wideman's First Fiction: Voice and the Modernist Narrative."
College Language Association Journal. 41, no.1, (1997).

_____________. "The Conversion of an Agnostic: Julius Lester Today." in Radical Activists.
Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1995.

_____________. "John A. Williams: The Black American Narrative and the City." in The City in
African-American Literature. Joshinobi, Hakutani, ed. (New Jersey: Farleigh-Dickinson Press, 1995).
212-225.

______________. "Julian Mayfield (1928-1983)." Dictionary of Negro Biography.(1995).

______________. "James Baldwin: A Man and a Half" African Concord. 29, (1988).

______________. "Marcus Garvey-Portrait of a Hero" Afrique Histroirie. 23, (1997).

______________. "E. Ethelbert Miller." editors Trudier Harris and Thadious Davis. The Dictionary of Literary Biography: Black Poets after 1950. vol II. Detroit: Gale Research, 1986.

______________. "The African Connection: Marcus Garvey and the International Improvement Association" African Histoirie. 2, no.3 (1986).

______________. "The Alexis DeVaux." The Dictionary of Literary Biogrpahy: Playwrights after 1950. vol II. Detroit: Gale Research, 1986.

______________. "Martin Luther King" African Concord. (1986)

______________. "Her Highs and Her Lows: A Study of Maya Angelou's Autobiographies and Her Poetry" The Association for the Preservation of African American Writing. (1985).

______________. "Freeze the Day: A Feminist Reading of Nella Larson's QuickSand and Passing." Negroes in New York Life and History. 9, no.1, (1985).

______________. "Sentimental Heroines Are Too Nice to Pass" and The House Behind the Cedars" Negro History Bulletin. 47, no.1, (1984).

______________. "The Critical Canon of Houston A. Baker: A Scholar Prodigy." The Journal of Mid-Atlantic Writers' Association. 1, no.2, (1984).

______________. "Transcendence: The Poetry of Maya Angelou." A Current Bibliography of African Affairs. 17, no.2, (1984).

______________. "Blind Eyes, Blind Quests." The Journal of the College Language Association. 24, no.1, (1980).

______________. "All is Well Or Is It? Conflict as Motivating Force in the Autobiography of Julius Lester." The New England Journal of Black Studies. (1980).

______________. "Thurman O' Daniel's James Baldwin: A Critical Study." Philadelphia Black History Museum Publication, (1978).

______________. "A Study of Black Identity in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Passing Novel." Studies in Black Literature. 7, no.2, (1976).

______________. "Landford Wilson's Hot'l Baltimore." Masterplots. in Magill's Literary Annual. (1973).

______________. "Arnost Lusting's A Prayer for Katerina Horovitzkova." Masterplots. in Magill's Literary Annual. (1973).

______________. "Joey Dillard's Black English." Masterplots. in Magill's Literary Annual. (1973).

Reviews:

Ramsey, Priscilla R. "Reading, Writing and Rithmetic." in Pride Magazine. 2, 2001.

_______________. "Fathering Words: Memoirs of An African-American Poet." by E. Ethelbert Miller.
Pride Magazine. 1, (2000).

______________. "Salt by Earl Lovelace." in World View Magazine. 10, no. 1 (1999).

______________. "Pepperidgs's Form: John A. Williams' Clifford's Blues." in "The American Book Review."
29, no.3 (1999).

_______________. "No Man in the House:" by Cecil Foster. Kenneth Kinnamon ed. The African-American Review. Saint Louis, Missouri. (1995).

_______________. "Shadowed Dreams: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance." By Karen Horney
for Sage Magazine.

_______________. " Women Surviving Massacres and Men." Omowe Magazine. 4, no.1, (1980).

_______________."Orestes, Hamlet and Herman" in Indigene. 1, (1978).

_______________. "Synergy: A Poetry Anthology." Black Books Bulletin. 5, no.2, (1977).

Works in Progress and Circulating Manuscripts

Ramsey, Priscilla R. "Two Cities and John Wideman's Short Stories." (2002).

_______________. "The Cattle Killing and the Stories of John Edgar Wideman." (2001).

_______________. "Sent for You Yesterday. John Edgar Wideman's Song." (2001).

_______________. "Reuben." John Edgar Wideman's Signifying Joke." (2000)

_______________. "Autobiography and Fictional Voice." Philadelphia Fire. Brothers and Keepers.
Fatheralong. (1994).

_______________. "The First Modernist Fiction: John Edgar Wideman's Voice and Modernist Narrative" (1993).

_______________. "Women in South African Autobiography" Pan African Studies Journal. (1992).

_______________. "Pioneering a Black Aesthetic: Stephen Henderson." Black American Teachers:
Theorists and Literary Scholars (1930-1980). Modern Language Association, 1988.

_______________. "Sissie: Shaping New Class Paradigms." in John A. Williams Stepping Stones Magazine. (1988).

pramsey@howard.edu
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