Shelly Eversley

Professor

Weissman School of Arts and Sciences

Department: English

Areas of expertise: Black Studies, Antiracist Pedagogy

Email Address: shelly.eversley@baruch.cuny.edu

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Biography
Teaching
Research and Creative Activity
Grants
Honors and Awards
Service

Dr. Shelly Eversley is Professor of English and Interim Chair of the Black and Latino Studies department at Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY), where she designed the Bachelor of Arts in Black and Latino Studies. She is also Professor of English at The Graduate Center (CUNY), and Co-Director of the Futures Initiative. Her recent institutional leadership includes her role as Faculty Co-Director of the Mellon Foundation’s Transformative Learning in the Humanities initiative at CUNY and Academic Director of CUNY’s Faculty Fellowship Publication Program. She is the author of The “Real” Negro: The Question of Authenticity in Twentieth Century African American Literature (Routledge, 2004) as well as several essays on literature, race, and culture. Her editorial work includes The Sexual Body and The 1970s, both special issues of WSQ, a journal by the Feminist Press, as well as the recent book African American Literature in Transition, 1960-1970: Black Art, Politics, and Aesthetics (Cambridge, 2022). She is currently revising a new book on Black survival in height of cold war surveillance and censorship. She teaches literature, feminism, and Black Studies.

Education

Ph.D., English, The Johns Hopkins University

M.A., English, The Johns Hopkins University

B.A., English, Columbia College, Columbia University

Semester	Course Prefix	Course Number	Course Name
Spring 2024	BLS	5001	Independent Study BLS II
Spring 2024	ENV	3200	Climate Justice
Spring 2024	LTS	3200	Climate Justice
Spring 2024	BLS	3200	Climate Justice
Fall 2023	ENG	4535	Afr Dias: Us, Lat Amer, & Carb
Fall 2023	CMP	4535	Afr Dias: Us, Lat Amer, & Carb
Spring 2023	BLS	3034	Survey of African American Lit
Spring 2023	ENG	3034	Survey of African American Lit
Fall 2022	LTS	4900	Sem Blk & Lat Studie
Fall 2022	BLS	4900	Seminar Black & Latino Studies
Spring 2022	BLS	4900	Seminar Black & Latino Studies
Spring 2022	LTS	4900	Sem Blk & Lat Studie
Fall 2021	BLS	5000	Independent Study BLS I
Fall 2021	BLS	3024	Women of Color
Spring 2021	LTS	4900	Sem Blk & Lat Studie
Spring 2021	ENG	4545	Lit of the Harlem Renaissance
Spring 2021	BLS	4900	Seminar Black & Latino Studies
Fall 2020	BLS	3085	Special Topics Bls
Fall 2020	ENG	3835	Black Women Writers
Fall 2020	IDC	1001H	Honors-The Arts in New York
Spring 2020	ENG	3034	African Americ Liter
Fall 2019	IDC	1001H	Honors-The Arts in New York
Spring 2019	ENG	2100	Writing I
Spring 2019	ENG	5000	Independent Study English I
Fall 2018	IDC	1001H	Honors-The Arts in New York
Spring 2018	ENG	3034	African Americ Liter
Spring 2018	ENG	6002H	Honors English II
Spring 2018	ENG	5000	Independent Study English I
Fall 2017	ENG	6001H	Honors-English I
Fall 2017	IDC	1001H	Honors-The Arts in New York
Fall 2017	ENG	3950	Topics in Literature
Spring 2017	ENG	3032	Ethnic Literature
Fall 2016	IDC	1001H	Honors-The Arts in New York
Fall 2016	ENG	3720	Women in Literature
Summer 2016	ENG	4440	Currents in the Modern Novel
Spring 2016	ENG	4460	The Modern Short Novel
Fall 2015	ENG	2100	Writing I
Fall 2015	ENG	3034	African Americ Liter
Spring 2015	ENG	3025	Surv American Lit II
Spring 2015	ENG	2800	Great Works of Literature I
Fall 2014	IDC	1001H	Honors-The Arts in New York
Fall 2014	ENG	2800	Great Works of Literature I
Spring 2014	ENG	4510	The American Novel
Spring 2014	ENG	2800	Great Works of Literature I
Fall 2013	ENG	3950	Topics in Literature
Fall 2013	IDC	1001H	Honors-The Arts in New York
Spring 2013	ENG	3020	Survey American Literature I
Spring 2013	ENG	2800	Great Works of Literature I
Spring 2013	ENG	5000	Independent Study English I
Fall 2012	IDC	1001H	Honors-The Arts in New York
Fall 2012	ENG	4460	The Modern Short Novel
Spring 2012	ENG	2150	Writing II
Fall 2011	ENG	2850	Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2011	IDC	4050H	Hon Feit Hum Sem I
Spring 2011	ENG	3025	Surv American Lit II
Fall 2010	ENG	3950	Topics in Literature
Fall 2010	ENG	2850	Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2010	ENG	2850	Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2010	ENG	2800	Great Works of Literature I
Spring 2010	ENG	3940	Topics in Film
Fall 2009	ENG	2800	Great Works of Literature I
Fall 2009	ENG	2800	Great Works of Literature I
Fall 2009	ENG	3020	Survey American Literature I
Spring 2009	ENG	2850H	Honors Great Works II
Spring 2009	ENG	2850	Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2009	ENG	3835	Black Women Writers
Fall 2008	ENG	3034	African Americ Liter
Fall 2008	ENG	2100	Writing I
Fall 2008	ENG	2100	Writing I
Spring 2007	ENG	2850	Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2007	ENG	4510	The American Novel
Fall 2006	ENG	2850	Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2006	ENG	3034	African Americ Liter
Spring 2006	ENG	3034	African Americ Liter
Spring 2006	ENG	2850	Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2005	ENG	3034	African Americ Liter
Fall 2005	ENG	2100	Writing I
Fall 2005	ENG	2100	Writing I
Summer 2004	ENG	3025	Surv American Lit II
Spring 2004	ENG	2850	Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2004	ENG	5000	Independent Study English I
Spring 2004	ENG	3835	Black Women Writers
Fall 2003	ENG	3034	African Americ Liter
Fall 2003	IDC	4050H	Hon Feit Hum Sem I
Spring 2003	ENG	2800	Great Works of Literature I
Spring 2003	ENG	3034	African Americ Liter
Fall 2002	ENG	3034	African Americ Liter
Fall 2002	ENG	2800	Great Works of Literature I
Spring 2002	ENG	2800	Great Works of Literature I
Spring 2002	ENG	3835	Black Women Writers
Fall 2001	ENG	2100	Writing I
Fall 2001	ENG	3034	African Americ Liter

Books

Eversley, S., & Eversley, S. (2021). Black Art, Politics and Aesthetics in the 1960s. New York and Cambridge, USA and UK, Cambridge University Press.

Eversley, S. (2004). Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African. Written by Himself. Edited with Notes by Shelly Eversley. (p. 261). New York, The Modern Library.

Eversley, S. (2003). The Real Negro: The Question of Authenticity in Twentieth Century African American Literature. (p. 144). New York, Routledge Press.

Journal Articles

Eversley, S. (2019). Introduction: Digital Pedagogy. The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, 16(16).

Eversley, S. (2018). The Evidence of Things Unseen: Experimental Form as Black Feminist Praxis. Journal of Narrative Theory, 48(3).

Eversley, S., & N/A, L. (2017). Equality Archive: Open Education Resources as Feminist Praxis. Feminist Media Histories, 13(3). 154-158.

Eversley, S., & Habell-Pallan, M. (2015). Introduction: The 1970s. WSQ (Women's Studies Quarterly), 43(3&4). 14-30.

Eversley, S. (2011). Marriage Apartheid and the Tyranny of American Morality. We Who Feel Differently, (1).

Eversley, S., & Morgan, J. L. (2007). The Sexual Body: Introduction. Feminist Press, 31(1-2).

(2003). The Big Picture: The Photography of Renee Cox. NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art, (18). 72-75.

Eversley, S. (2002). The Source of Hip. The Minessota Review: A Journal of Committed Writing, University of Minnesota Press, 54(5). 257-270.

Eversley, S. (2001). The Lunatic's Fancy and the Work of Art. American Literary History, 13(3). 445-468.

Book Chapters

Eversley, S., Laurie, H., & Eversley, S. (2019). Like Inciting a Riot: Queering Open Education with Equality Archive. In Ghaziani, A., & Brim, M. (Eds.), Imagining Queer Methods New York,US. NYU Press.

Eversley, S. (2007). Richard Wright's Postcards from Africa: Modernity and Black Women's Bodies Blackness and Sexuality. In Wright, M. M., Schuhmann, A., & Wright, M. (Eds.), Blackness and Sexuality FORECAAST.

Eversley, S. (2005). Female Iconography in Invisible Man. In Posnock, R. (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Ellison Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.

Media Contributions

(2016). Mashable.

(2016). Huffington Post.

(2015). Refinery29.

Presentations

Eversley, S. (2018, November 9). Feminist Practice as Feminist Theory: Undoing Hierarchies of Knowledge in the University. American Studies Association. Atlanta, GA

Eversley, S. (2018, May 20). Mobility and Access in Open Education. Migration and Inclusive Ideas of Mobility and Movement. Wooster, Ohio: Wooster College.

Eversley, S. (2018, March 3). Teaching Feminist. Art + Feminism. : Museum of Modern Art.

Eversley, S. (2017, April 30). OERs, Opportunity, and Feminist Praxis. Wikipedia New York. New York, NY: Wikipedia Foundation.

Eversley, S. (2017, March 18). Multimodality as Feminist Praxis. Feminist Ecologies of Antiracism. Brooklyn, NY: UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art.

Eversley, S. (2016, February 10). Equality Archive: feminism an Open Education. Monclair State University: Gender Studies Program.

Eversley, S. (2015, November 30). "The Erotic Life of Difference: Spectable, Performance, and Possibility". New York Metro American Studies Association. New York, NY

Eversley, S. (2015, October 31). Black Art: Creativity and Confrontation, America 1965. American Studies Association. Toronto, Canada

Eversley, S. (2014, May 23). Consuming Culture: Society and Spectacle in Carlene Hatcher Polite's Sister X and the Victims of Foul Play. American Literature Association. Washington, DC: American Literature Association.

Eversley, S. (2014, April 18). Meaningful Sex. Amherst, MA: Amherst College.

Eversley, S., Wald, P., Metzl, J., & Roberts, D. (2013, November 21). Indebted to the Future: Developing Structural Competetence. American Studies Association. Washington, DC: American Studies Association.

Eversley, S. (2013, March 31). A Meaningful F*ck: Sweet Sweetback's Revolutionary Black Experience. Northeast Modern Language Association. Tufts University, Boston: Northeast Modern Language Association.

Eversley, S. (2011, April 30). Nina Simone and Lorraine Hansberry. New York, NY: The James Gallery.

Eversley, S. (2010, March 31). From Local to Global: Richard Wright's Race Consciousness. National Black Writer's Conference. New York, NY: National Black Writer's Conference.

Eversley, S. (2009, February 28). "All cats bee gray": Privacy, Integration and the Law in Postwar Black American Fiction. Southern American Studies Association. George Mason University: Southern American Studies Association.

Eversley, S. (2008, April 30). The Cosmopolitan Conundrum. Race, Gender, Power Conference. Chicago: University of Illinois.

Eversley, S. (2005, April 30). Black Bodies Traveling. CAAR Conference. France: University of Tours.

Eversley, S. (2005, February 28). An Evening With Marita Golden. Conversations With African American Authors. The Graduate Center: The City University of New York.

Eversley, S. (2003, September 30). African American Experiments with the French Avant-Garde. The U.S. Europe Seminar. : Baruch College, The City University of New York.

Eversley, S. (2003, March 31). Gwendolyn Brooks. Attack of the Intelligent Woman: Great Writers of the 1950s. The Graduate Center: The City University of New York Public Lecture Series.

Eversley, S. (2002, September 30). Postcards from Africa: Richard Wright and the Problem of Modernity. The Graduate Center: The City University of New York.

Eversley, S. (2002, June 30). Roots and Reason. MESEA Converence. Italy: University of Padua.

Eversley, S. (2002, March 31). Remix Media: Race, Gender, and the Avant-Garde. Junior Faculty Colloqium Series. : Baruch College.

Eversley, S. (2002, April 30). A War of Impulses. San Juan, Puerto Rico: University of Puerto Rico, American Comparative Literature Association.

Eversley, S. (2001, March 31). Inside History. Black Atlantic/African Diaspora Seminar Series. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University, Center for Historical Analysis.

Eversley, S. (2000, December 31). Chicano Popular Culture. Washington, D.C.: Modern Language Association.

Eversley, S. (2000, November 30). Change the Look: The Surrealist Experimentin Charlene Hatcher Polite's The Flagellants. Tacoma, WA: University of the Puget Sound.

Eversley, S. (2000, November 30). L'Amour Foul. Las Angeles: University of California.

Eversley, S. (1999, December 31). Twentieth Century Literature at the Century's End. Chicago, IL: Modern Language Association.

Eversley, S. (1999, October 31). American Underground. Alumni Lecture Series, Literature of the Twentieth Century. Seattle, WA: University of Washington.

Eversley, S. (1999, March 31). Black Literature and US Intergration. South Africa: University of Witwatersrand.

Eversley, S. (1999, February 28). Super. Fly. Chic.. Flava Fest Black Film Festival. Seattle, WA

Eversley, S. (1998, December 31). Dirty White, or the Stains of History. Cancun, Mexico: Americn Humor Studies Association and the Mark Twain Circle.

Eversley, S. (1998, April 30). An Emerging Form: Harlem, the Anthology, and the Rise of the New Negro. : Institute for Research in African American Studies, Columbia University.

Eversley, S. (1998, April 30). Media and Cultural Studies. Coeur d'Alene, Idaho: Pacific Northwest American Studies Association.

Eversley, S. (1998, April 30). Getting Your First Job in Acacdemia. Seattle, WA: Northwest Center for Research on Women.

Eversley, S. (1997, December 31). Literature and History. Pasadena, CA: The Huntington Library.

Eversley, S. (1996, September 30). Black Culture/White Context. National Black Studies Conference. Washington, DC.

Eversley, S. (1996, April 30). 'Unspoken Words are Stronger:' Narrative Interiority and Racial Visibility in Gwendolyn Brook's Maud Martha. American Literature Association Conference. Baltimore, MD

Eversley, S. (1996, April 30). History, Race, Nation: Black Aesthetic Poetry and the Production of Authenticity. Princeton, NJ: Northeast Modern Language Association.

Eversley, S. (1995, May 31). Sex and Violence: gender Authenticity, and the Articulation of Black Power. Women's Studies Graduate Student Conference. : The John Hopkins University.

Eversley, S. (1995, March 31). Black Man, Blackface: Paul Laurence Dunbar's "Blac" Poems. "The Negro Problem" Conference. : Princeton University.

Eversley, S. (1995, March 31). Literature, Politics, and Pedagogy. Women's Studies Semiar. : The John Hopkins University.

Eversley, S. (1992, November 30). Living Feminist Theory: Praxis or Paralysis?. Women's Studies Seminar. : The John Hopkins University.

Other Scholarly Works

Eversley, S., & Eversley, S. (2015). equalityarchive.com.

equalityarchive.com

Eversley, S. (2006). "Literary Criticism," Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: the Black Experience in the Americas.

Eversley, S. (2003). "The Beats" and "Alain Locke," Encylopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered History in America.

Eversley, S. (2003). "Scents and Sensibility: On 'Natura Morta' by Nana Onishi" and "Sensi ed Essenze: osservazioni su 'Natura Morta' di Nana Onishi," Natura Morta (exhibition catalogue). (Unnumbered exhibition catalogue), 28.

Hoberek, A., Sagar, A., Jurca, C., Burt, J., Eversley, S., Kadlec, D., Berube, M., & Daniel, J. O. (2001). "Twentieth Century Literature in the New Century: A Symposium," College English. 64(1), 20-22.

Eversley, S., Martin, W., & Sullivan, P. (1999). "James Weldon Johnson," Civil Rights in the United States. 394.

Eversley, S. (1999). "Blax Chix".

Eversley, S. (1998). " 'And Mouth With Myriad Subtleties': The Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar," Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century American Poets. 136-140.

Reviews

Eversley, S. (2003,September 1). American Literature. Duke University Press.

Research Currently in Progess

Eversley, S.(n.d.). Afropsychadelic: On Black Experimentalisms. In Progress.

A book length project on global Black avant gardes.

Eversley, S.(n.d.). The Practice of Blackness: Cold War Surveillance, Censorship, and African American Literary Survival. In Progress.

Book. Literary criticism and literary history of African American literature during cold war ear of integration and political surveillance and censorship. Complete. Under Review.

Title	Funding Agency Sponsor	Start Date	End Date	Awarded Date	Total Funding	Status
Department Chair Research Account Year 1 - Shelly Eversley	PSC CUNY	02/01/2021	08/31/2022	02/01/2021	1750	Completed
Department Chair Research Account Year 2 - Shelly Eversley	PSC CUNY	09/01/2021	08/31/2023	09/01/2021	3000	Completed
Department Chair Research Account Year 4 Shelly Eversley	PSC CUNY	09/01/2023	08/31/2025	08/31/2023	3000	Funded - In Progress
Department Chair Research Account Year 3 - Shelly Eversley	PSC CUNY	09/01/2022	08/31/2024	09/01/2022	3000	Funded - In Progress
BRESI: Afrolatinidades+	The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation	09/01/2022	10/15/2023	08/19/2022	19512	Funded - In Progress

Honor / Award	Organization Sponsor	Date Received	Description
Provost Faculty Fellow	Baruch College	2020	Reorganize and update Black and Latino Studies department and curriculum. Integrate the department into larger academic community.
Presidential Award for Excellence	Baruch College	2019	Recognition for excellence in service to the College.
Management Development Program	Harvard Institute of Higher Education	2018	Higher education management training summer institute.
Diversifying Leadership	CUNY-Harvard University	2018	Executive leadership training in higher education, including participation in Harvard University's Management Development Program, monthly development seminars at CUNY Central, craft a leadership project, and shadow John Jay College President, Karol Mason.
Faculty Fellow	Futures Initiative, The Graduate Center CUNY	2017	Competitive Award for innovative teaching and developing a new course for graduate students.
Digital Cities Fellow	New York Metro American Studies Association	2015	Share and develop new practices for teaching and scholarship in the digital humanities.
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship	The Graduate Center	2011	Year-long fellowship: faculty research group for works-in-progress; presented unpublished work; organized public lecture series
Whiting Excellence in Teaching Award	Baruch College, The City University of New York (one year course release)	2004
Andrew Mellon Fellowship	Center for the Humanities, the Graduate Center, The City University of New York (one year course release)	2003
Visiting Scholar, American Studies, New York University		2001
Presidential Fellowship		2001
Women of Influence Award	Baruch College	2001
Presidential Fellowship		2000
Visiting Scholar, American Studies	New York University	2000
Distinguished Teaching Award	University of Washington	1999
Royalty Research Award	University of Washington	1999
John Kluge Foundation Award		1998
Irene Diamond Dissertation Fellowship		1997
Irene Diamond Dissertation Fellowship		1996
Mellon Foundation Summer Humanities Seminar		1995
Dean's Fellowship	The John Hopkins University	1994
Dean's Fellowship	The John Hopkins University	1993
National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Scholar		1990

College

Committee Name	Position Role	End Date
Women of Color Leadership	Faculty Mentor	Present
Black Male Initiative Advisory Board	Committee Member	Present
Planning and Budget Committee	Committee Member	Present
Interim Chair Black and Latino Studies	Committee Chair	Present
President's Task Force for the Future	Committee Member	Present
Honors Admission	Committee Member	12/31/2021
Planning and Budget	Committee Member	1/31/2020
Provost's Advisory Committee on Diversity	Committee Member	5/31/2019
Global Studies Initiative	Committee Member	5/31/2016
Executive Committee	Committee Member	12/31/2015
Academic Review	Committee Member	12/31/2015
Strategic Plan for Diversity	Committee Member	6/30/2013
Executive Committee	Committee Member	5/31/2009
	Faculty Senate	12/31/2005
	Social Committee	12/31/2004
	Freshman Text Selection Committee	12/31/2003
	Department Secretary	12/31/2003
	Organizer, Junior Faculty Colloquium Series	12/31/2002

University

Committee Name	Position Role	Start Date	End Date
Transformational Learning in the Humanities	Administrative Assignment, Other	9/1/2020	Present
University Advisory Committee on Diversity	Committee Member	9/1/2017	Present
Futures Initiative Advisory Board	Committee Member	9/1/2016	Present
Faculty Fellowship Publication Program	Program Organizer	9/1/2014	9/30/2020
Faculty Fellowship Publication Program	Faculty Mentor	10/1/2010	9/30/2014
	Faculty Adviser, CUNY Black Feminisms Conference	5/1/2003	4/30/2004
	Presenter, Faculty Development Seminar, IRADAC, The Graduate Center	11/1/2003	11/30/2003
	Moderator, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies	10/1/2002	10/31/2002

Professional

Organization	Position Role	Organization State	Organization Country	Start Date	End Date	Audience
Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy	Editorial Review Board Member	New York		10/1/2018	Present
United Way of New York Education	Board Member	New York	United States		Present	State
WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly	Editorial Review Board Member	New York		4/1/2005	Present

Public

Organization	Position Role	Organization State	Organization Country	Start Date	End Date
Museum of Modern Art	Member			1/1/2001	Present
American Association of University Women	Member			9/1/1997	Present
American Studies Association	Member			1/1/1996	Present
Modern Language Association	Member			1/1/1995	Present
New York Cares	Member	New York	United States	5/1/2011	5/31/2018
The Public Theatre	Organizer, "Elucidating Epidemic"			1/1/2004	12/31/2004
Americanist Faculty Website, UW English Department	Curator			1/1/1998	12/31/2001
University of Washington	Humanities Center Curriculum Forum			1/1/1998	12/31/2001
University of Washington	Graduate Program Review			1/1/1998	12/31/2001
Women's Center, University of Washington	Faculty Advisor			1/1/1997	6/30/2001
University of Washington	Faculty Advisor, Project GEAR UP			1/1/2000	12/31/2000
African Americanist Search, UW History Department	Search Committee Advisor			1/1/1998	12/31/1998
Northeast Modern Language Association	Member			1/1/1995	12/31/1997
Black Film Forum, Baltimore Museum of Art	Programming COnsultant			1/1/1996	12/31/1996
Summer Research Opportunities Program, John Hopkins University	Program Assistant			1/1/1996	12/31/1996
American Comparative Literature Association	Member			1/1/1995	12/31/1996