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Beverly Guy-Sheftall

Founding Director of the Women鈥檚 Research and Resource Center and Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women鈥檚 Studies, Spelman University

Beverly Guy-Sheftall is the founding director of the Women鈥檚 Research and Resource Center (1981) and Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women鈥檚 Studies at Spelman College. For many years she was a visiting professor at Emory University鈥檚 Institute for Women鈥檚 Studies where she taught graduate courses in Women鈥檚 Studies. At the age of sixteen, she entered Spelman College where she majored in English and minored in secondary education.聽 After graduating with honors, she attended Wellesley College for a fifth year of study in English. In 1968, she entered Atlanta to pursue a master鈥檚 degree in English; her thesis was entitled, 鈥淔aulkner鈥檚 Treatment of Women in His Major Novels.鈥� A year later she began her first teaching job in the Department of English at Alabama State University in Montgomery, Alabama.聽 In 1971 she returned to her alma mater Spelman College and joined the English Department.

Guy-Sheftall has published a number of texts within African American and Women鈥檚 Studies which have been noted as seminal works by other scholars, including the first anthology on Black women鈥檚 literature, Sturdy Black Bridges:聽 Visions of Black Women in Literature (Doubleday, 1980), which she coedited with Roseann P. Bell and Bettye Parker Smith; her dissertation, Daughters of Sorrow:聽 Attitudes Toward Black Women, 1880-1920 (Carlson, 1991); Words of Fire:聽 An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought (New Press, 1995); an anthology she co-edited with Rudolph Byrd entitled Traps:聽 African American Men on Gender and Sexuality (Indiana University Press, 2001); a book coauthored with Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Gender Talk:聽 The Struggle for Women鈥檚 Equality in African American Communities (Random House, 2003); an anthology, I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde, co-edited with Rudolph P. Bryd, Johnnetta B. Cole, and Guy-Sheftall (Oxford University Press, 2009); an anthology, Still Brave: The Evolution of Black Women鈥檚 Studies (Feminist Press, 2010), with Stanlie James and Frances Smith Foster. Her most recent publication (SUNY Press, 2010) is an anthology co-edited with Johnnetta B. Cole, Who Should Be First:聽 Feminists Speak Out on the 2008 Presidential Campaign. In 1983 she became founding co-editor of Sage:聽 A Scholarly Journal of Black Women which was devoted exclusively to the experiences of women of African descent. She is the past president of the National Women鈥檚 Studies Association (NWSA) and was recently聽 elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2017).