English Faculty: Tarshia Stanley, Ph.D.

Tarshia L. Stanley, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the English department. She teaches courses in film studies and visual imagery, particularly as it pertains to images of women.

She has authored several articles critiquing Black women in African American, African, and Caribbean cinema as well as Black female iconography in American popular culture.

She edited The Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Literature published by Greenwood Press in 2008, and is at work on a manuscript called Mothering Our Daughters: Mediating the Messages. The book stems from her work on a conference by the same name that she has hosted at Spelman College since 2002.

Stanley received an A.B. from Duke University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Florida where she was a McKnight Doctoral Fellow.