April Langley

April Langley is an Associate Professor in the Department of African American Studies at the University of South Carolina's McCausland College of Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century African American and American literature and theory.

• PhD, University of Notre Dame (2001)
• MA, University of Notre Dame (1998)
• BA, Mills College (1995), Summa cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa
• AA, Laney College (1993), Summa cum Laude

Langley's work explores early black narrative forms including conversion, captivity, slave narration, travel, and spiritual autobiography. She integrates disciplines like African Diaspora literature, Black Feminist/Womanist theory, and African/American studies in her research.

Her publications appear in journals such as The Western Journal of Black Studies, a/b: Autobiography Studies, and Legacy. She authored The Black Aesthetic Unbound (Ohio State University Press) and is working on Looking for Phillis, a study of Senegambian influences on Phillis Wheatley's poetry.

Scientific Awards:

• Phi Beta Kappa member
• 2001 AAUW Fellow
• 2003-2005 Postdoctoral Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis