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Prior to joining Laurier in August 2024, I was Professor of Black Cultures of the Americas at York University, where I founded the Black Canadian Studies Certificate.
My research foregrounds questions of race and gender through Black women’s literary and cultural productions.
My book, Horizon, Sea, Sound: Caribbean & African Women’s Cultural Critiques of Nation (2022), winner of the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies’ best book prize, imagines new reciprocal relationships among Black, Indigenous and other racialized women, and reflects on the relationship between the Caribbean and Canada. More recently, I co-edited the Routledge Handbook of Black Canadian Literature (December 2024).
My current research project is an autofictional exploration of women’s journeys to and from the Caribbean in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries across the Atlantic Ocean and Sargasso Sea.
- Best Book Prize, Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2024
- Honorary Doctor of Laws in recognition of contributions to Black Studies, Royal Roads University, 2023
- 3M National Teaching Fellowship, 2021
- Honoree, 100 Accomplished Black Canadian women, 2018
- President’s University-Wide Teaching Award, York University, 2017
Davis, Andrea A. and Leslie Sanders (co-eds). The Routledge Handbook of Black Canadian Literature. Taylor and Francis, Dec. 2024.
Davis, Andrea A. "A Project Toward Black Life: Teaching Black Studies in the Humanities." TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 47 (fall 2023) 224-233.
Davis, Andrea A., Aysha Campbell, and Michelle Molubi. “‘They are blue and pretty and wild’: Race, Place and Black Interiority in David Chariandy’s Brother." Interdisciplinary Humanities vol. 38:1 (spring 2021 issue; published winter 2023) 155-176.
Davis, Andrea A. "‘Jamaican’ as Synecdoche for Black Male Identification: Performing Blackness in Toronto.” Histoire sociale / Social History vol. 55, no. 114 (Dec. 2022) 399-416.
Davis, Andrea A. “‘Go on, go on the brilliant future doesn’t wait’: Reflections on Dionne Brand’s 2021 Kitty Lundy Memorial Lecture.” sx salon: A Small Axe Literary Platform 38 & 39 (February 2022).
Davis, Andrea A. Horizon, Sea, Sound: Caribbean and African Women’s Cultural Critiques of Nation, Northwestern University Press, January 2022.
Davis, Andrea A. “Brown Girl in the Ring: Caribbean Subversive Knowledges and the Discourse of Canadian Citizenship.” Relation and Resistance: Racialized Women, Religion and Diaspora. Eds. Sailaja Krishnamurti and Becky R. Lee. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021. 217-236.
Davis, Andrea A. “Which Scandalous Bodies? Black Women Writers Refuse Nation Narratives.” Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review 243 (fall 2020) 146-152.
Davis, Andrea A. “Un/Belonging in Diasporic Cities: A Literary History of Caribbean Women in London and Toronto.” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies 13 (June 2019) 17-50.
Davis, Andrea A. “‘The Real Toronto’: Black Youth Experiences and the Narration of the Multicultural City.” Journal of Canadian Studies 51:3 (Fall 2017) 725-748.
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