Akasha Gloria Hull | |
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| Born | Gloria Theresa Thompson December 6, 1944 Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Other names | Gloria T. Hull |
| Occupation(s) | Poet, educator, writer and critic |
| Spouse |
Prentice Roy Hull
(m. 1966–1984) |
| Children | 1 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Southern University (BA) Purdue University (MA, PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | African-American studies Women's studies English literature |
| Sub-discipline | Black feminism Black Women's studies |
Akasha Gloria Hull (born December 6, 1944) is an American poet, educator, writer, and critic whose work in African-American literature and as a Black feminist activist has helped shape Women's Studies. As one of the architects of Black Women's Studies, her scholarship and activism has increased the prestige, legitimacy, respect, and popularity of feminism and African-American studies.
Hull has been a professor of women's studies and literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the University of Delaware, and the University of the West Indies (Mona campus) in Kingston, Jamaica. She has published four books, a monograph, three edited collections, more than twenty articles in peer-reviewed professional journals, numerous chapters in a dozen volumes, fifteen book reviews, poems in more than thirty magazines and anthologies, and two short stories. Her first novel, Neicy, was released in October 2012. She lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.