Caroline Davis (publishing)
Caroline Davis | |
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![]() Dr Caroline Davis, 2020, holding a cake with the cover of her book 'Print Cultures'. | |
Education | PhD (English Literature), Open University. Postgraduate Certificate of Teaching in Higher Education, Oxford Brookes University. MA (English), University of York. BA (English and History), University of Birmingham. |
Occupation | Senior Lecturer in Publishing Media. |
Employer | Oxford Brookes University |
Known for | Academic of Publishing Media |
Awards | Mid-Career Fellowship (British Academy) |
Caroline Davis is a British academic who is a senior lecturer of Publishing Media at Oxford Brookes University.
Davis specialises in post-colonial publishing, with a focus on the CIA relationship with the publishing industry during the Cold War, and has a strong interest in print cultures in South Africa.[1][2] She is a winner of the Mid-Career Fellowship awarded by the British Academy.[3]
Selected publications[]
Books[]
- African Literature and the CIA: Networks of Authorship and Publishing. 2020 (Cambridge University Press)
- Print Cultures: A Reader in Theory and Practice. 2019. (Macmillan Education)
- The Book in Africa. 2015. (Palgrave Macmillan UK)
Journal articles[]
- 'A Question of Power: Bessie Head and her Publishers' Journal of Southern African Studies 44 (3) (2018) pp. 491–506 ISSN: 0305-7070 eISSN: 1465–3893.
- 'Publishing anti-apartheid literature: Athol Fugard's Statements plays Journal of Commonwealth Literature 48 (1) (2013) pp. 113–129 ISSN: 0021–9894.
- 'Publishing Wole Soyinka: Oxford University Press and the creation of "Africa's own William Shakespeare" Journal of Postcolonial Writing 48 (4) (2012) pp. 344–358 ISSN: 1744–9855.
- 'Histories of publishing under apartheid: Oxford University Press in South Africa' Journal of Southern African Studies 37 (1) (2011) pp. 79–98 ISSN: 0305-7070 eISSN: 1465–3893.
References[]
- ^ "Dr Caroline Davis Senior Lecturer in Publishing". Oxford Brookes University. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ^ "Caroline Davis Oxford". Oxford Brookes Staff. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ^ Philips, Angus (29 April 2020). "Research success for OICP's Caroline Davis". Brookes Publishing News. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
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- Living people
- Academi people
- Oxford Brookes University