Geraldine R. Segal Professor Emerita of American Social Thought and Professor Emerita of English
Institution
University of Pennsylvania
Thadious M. Davis, Geraldine R. Segal Professor Emerita of American Social Thought and Professor Emerita of English, received her Ph.D. from Boston University. Her research areas are African American and Southern literatures. Her books include: Faulkner’s “Negro": Art and the Southern Context, Nella Larsen: Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance, Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender and Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses, Southscapes: Geographies of Race, Region, and Literature, and Understanding Alice Walker.