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• 1 media/image60.jpg 2021-08-26T12:44:12-07:00 1979 - Thadious Davis (1944- ) Joins the Department of English 4 Professors Thadious Davis together with Professor Trudier Harris, who was hired in the same year, become the first Black women on the English faculty. She is currently the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She has published extensively in African American literature and Southern literature focusing on race, region and gender. plain 2021-09-02T08:20:17-07:00 03/01/1979 Professors Thadious Davis together with Professor Trudier Harris, who was hired in the same year, become the first Black women on the English faculty. In 1991 Professor Davis had joined the faculty at Brown University and then moved to Vanderbilt where she was the Gertrude Conway Vanderbilt Professor of English. She is currently the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Together with these prestigious positions, she has also taught and lectured in Europe and Asia. She has published extensively in African American literature and Southern literature focusing on race, region and gender. 
  
  
  
  
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  “Thadious Davis.” “People.” Department of English, The University of Pennsylvania, n.d., https://www.english.upenn.edu/people/thadious-davis.