Angela A. Ards

Angela Ards is a writer, professor, and public speaker. She is author of Words of Witness: Black Women’s Autobiography in the Post-Brown Era (U of Wisconsin P, 2016), which examines how writers craft life stories vis-à-vis the traditional civil rights movement narrative to create new ways of speaking and thinking about identity and politics. Her work has appeared in publications such as Essence, The Village Voice, The Nation, Ms., and The Los Angeles Times Book Review, and in anthologies such as That’s the Joint: The Hip Hop Studies Reader (Routledge, 2004) and Still Lifting, Still Climbing: Contemporary African American Women’s Activism (New York UP, 1999).

Angela is an associate professor of English at Boston College, where she teaches African American literature and culture, and directs the Journalism Program. She has also held residencies at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Hutchins Center at Harvard, the Charles H. Revson Foundation at Columbia, and the Nation Institute.