Andrea Davis

Andrea A. Davis is Associate Professor in Black Cultures of the Americas in the Department of Humanities at York University. She holds cross-appointments in the graduate programs in English; Interdisciplinary Studies; and Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies. Her research focuses on the literary productions of Black women in the Americas. She is particularly interested in the intersections of the literatures of the Caribbean, the United States, and Canada, and her work encourages an intertextual cross-cultural dialogue about Black women’s experiences in diaspora. She is the author of the forthcoming Horizon, Sea, Sound: A Cultural Critique of the Nation.


Works by Andrea Davis

Book Reviews

Book Reviews by Andrea Davis

World of a Reading Self
By Andrea Davis
Published in Canadian Literature: 252 Canadian Literature (2023): 163-165.
  • An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading by Dionne Brand
Narrating Black Canada
By Andrea Davis
Published in Literary History. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 233 (Summer 2017): 131-133.
  • North to Bondage: Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes by Harvey Armani Whitfield
  • Blackening Canada: Diaspora, Race, Multiculturalism by Paul Barrett