www.davidson.edu Academics English Home Faculty Dr. Brenda Flanagan
Other Faculty: Anthony Abbott Shireen Campbell Suzanne Churchill   Brenda Flanagan Ann M. Fox Gail Gibson Gill Holland Annie Ingram Randy Ingram Zoran Kuzmanovich Cynthia Lewis Scott MacKenzie Paul Miller Elizabeth Mills Randy Nelson Alan Michael Parker   Onita Vaz-Hooper	Known internationally for her dramatic presentations of her stories and poems, Brenda Flanagan teaches creative writing, Caribbean and African-American literatures as well as literary analysis.  In May 2006 she was named the first Armfield Professor of English.  Professor Flanagan has won numerous awards for her fiction and drama in the United States and serves frequently as a cultural ambassador for the US Department of State, with recent visits to Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Chad, Panama and India. She was the first Afro-Caribbean writer to be sent to Libya in 25 years, and the first speaker there since America and Libya resumed relations.  She was also the first American writer to be sent to Central Asia since the demise of the Soviet Union.  She holds a PH. D from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she won three major Hopwood awards—fiction, drama, and short story. Flanagan has won three National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, four Global Partners to work with Czech surrealist writers, a Mellon Foundation Grant, a James Michener Creative Writing Fellowship, and a Michigan Grant for creative writing. Among the many journals in which her fiction and poetry have appeared are the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, SABLE (England), Caliban, KONCH, Witness, The Indiana Review, The Bridge, Caribbean Studies Journal, and Caribbean Review.  Her essays have appeared in American Legacy and Callaloo.  When the Jumbiebird Calls, one of her plays, was successfully staged at the Bonstelle Theatre, Detroit.  Her new collection of stories, In Praise of Island Women and Other Crimes (KaRu Press 2005) is available, as well as her prize-winning novel, You Alone Are Dancing (University of Michigan Press 1996.)  Her work is also available on cd.  A 2006 winner of a residency award from the North Carolina Writer's Network, Flanagan spent summer 2006 at Headlands in California completing a novel.  She is also at work on a book featuring the fiction of Czech surrealist, Eva Svankmajerova.  Flanagan is the Fall editor for the Caribbean issue of SABLE. Courses recently taught: English Composition I Introduction to Writing Fiction Writing Fiction II Caribbean Literature Senior Colloquium Seminars – for example "When Worlds Collide" Home | Faculty | The English Major | Course Offerings Writing At Davidson | The Writing Center | Financial Support Honors Program | Film Studies | Study Abroad