11 Facts About Hazel Carby

Hazel Carby served as Charles C and Dorathea S Dilley Professor of African American Studies and American Studies at Yale University.

Hazel Carby was born to Jamaican and Welsh parents in Okehampton, Devon, UK, on 15 January 1948.

Hazel Carby earned a BA degree in English and history from Portsmouth Polytechnic in 1970, then a PGCE in 1972, at the Institute of Education, London University.

In 1981, Carby was appointed as a lecturer in the English Department at Yale University, after which she taught English at Wesleyan University, and rejoined Yale University in 1989.

Hazel Carby is Yale's Charles C and Dorathea S Dilley Professor of African American Studies and American Studies.

Hazel Carby followed this book with Race Men: The Body and Soul of Race, Nation, and Manhood, a six-essay collection of critiques on historical sites of black masculinity.

Hazel Carby's first chapter, "Souls Of Black Men", is a critique of the gender bias in W E B Du Bois' seminal work The Souls of Black Folk.

Hazel Carby argues that double consciousness is an erasure of Black female subjectivity.

Hazel Carby has lectured at colleges and universities worldwide including the University of Notre Dame, Stanford University, the University of Paris, and the University of Toronto.

Hazel Carby serves on the advisory board of the academic journals Differences, New Formations and Signs.

Hazel Carby married fellow Yale professor Michael Denning on 29 May 1982.