S. P. Holland

S. P. Holland is a graduate of Princeton University and holds a PhD in English and African American studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity (Duke University Press, 2000), which won the Lora Romera First Book Prize from the American Studies Association (ASA) in 2002. Professor Holland has held appointments at Stanford University, SUNY-Albany, and is currently the Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of English at the University of Illinois @ Chicago. Her current projects include a novella (How Bubba the Socrates Got To Be Neither), a play (Killing Martha), and a second monograph ('Between Fabrication and Generation[s]': Biology, Sex (Acts) and Habitual Non-Belonging). She is also at work on a collection of transatlantic Afro-Native criticism with professor Tiya Miles (American Culture, UM, Ann Arbor). She can be reached at .