Caroline Davis (publishing)

Caroline Davis
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.

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