Joycelyn Moody

WSRP Research Associate 1996–97

Home institution

University of Washington

Research project

True Confessions: Emotional Power in the Spiritual Narratives of the 19th-Century African American Women

A study of the heart and the spirit as a gendered construction manifested in nineteenth-century black holy women's autobiographies.

Course

HDS 2440: Spirit, Spunk, and Sentimentality: Emotional Power in Black Women's Writing (Fall 1996)

Publications