Rhonda Frederick
Professor, English and African & African Diaspora Studies
Biography
Rhonda Frederick is a Professor of English and African & African Diaspora Studies (AADS) and former director of AADS at Boston College. She teaches courses on Anglophone Caribbean and African diaspora literatures, and on popular fictions (fantasy, science fiction, romance, mystery/detective, horror, thriller) written by black writers. Her research interests include Caribbean and Post-colonial Studies, Cultural Studies, and narratives of migration. She is the author of "Colón Man a Come": Mythographies of Panamá Canal Migration (Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), a book that examines Caribbean literature’s recurrent figure of the Panamá Canal worker, and Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fiction (Rutgers University Press, 7/2022), a book about how blackness is depicted in popular novels and short stories by black writers.