Dr. Nicole King

Biography

Nicole King is an Associate Professor of American Literature at Exeter College, University of Oxford, where she is a Tutorial Fellow. Her research primarily focuses on modern African American and Caribbean literature. She authored the book 'C.L.R. James and Creolization: Circles of Influence' (2001), which examines how Caribbean-born writer C.L.R. James engages with African American authors like Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison. King's interests include the representation of racialization in modern life, exploring issues within U.S. American, Caribbean diaspora, and Black British literatures across various genres and historical periods. She employs a comparative approach to analyze how particular texts resonate with their respective times and places. Currently, she is writing a book on 'Black Childhood in Modern African American Fiction'. Her recent articles investigate literary representations of children and young adults, the concept of blackness, and the broader implications of modernity in literature. Nicole welcomes PhD student applications in the areas of African American literature and culture, Caribbean literature, and contemporary literature across the Americas.

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