Professor Joyce Hope Scott

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Organisation: 
University of Boston (Wheelock College)
Role: 
Clinical Professor, African American Studies Program
Address: 
138 Mountfort Street, AAS 103, Boston, USA

Joyce Hope Scott is a Clinical Professor of African American Studies at Boston University, Boston and national and international scholar/lecturer in African American and Diaspora studies. She is a former scholar of the Oxford Round Table and former Fulbright Senior Lecturer & Researcher to the republics of Burkina Faso and Benin (West Africa). Prof. Hope Scott is co-coordinator and investigator of the International Network of Scholars and Activists for African Reparations (INOSAAR).

Publications: 

National and International Perspectives on Movements for Reparations. Journal of African American History. Special Issue. Vol. 103. Special Issue. (Winter/Spring 2018). Frith, Nicola and Joyce Hope Scott (Guest Eds.)

“Travel as Subversive in 19th Century Black Women’s Narratives.” Advances in Literary Study, 2017, 5, 105-121. http://www.scirp.org/journal/alsISSN Online: 2327-4050 ISSN Print: 2327-4034.

New Griottes of the African Sahel: Intersectionalities and Women’s Narrative Authority in Sanou Bernadette Dao’s La Dernière èpouse & Aïcha Fofona’s Mariage on Copie. Advances in Literary Study, ISSN Online: 2327-4050, December 2016. http://www.scirp.org/journal/als.

“The Emancipated Century”: Remapping History, Reclaiming Memory in August Wilson’s Dramatic Landscapes of the 20th Century.” August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle: Critical Perspectives on the Plays. Sandra G. Shannon (Ed.) Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers, 2016.

“Contentious Discourses: Signifying on the Law in African American Writing.” Journalism & Mass Communication Vol.5 No. 4, (April 2015 ), pp. 181 – 193.

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