Shirley Moody-Turner
· Associate Professor of English and African American StudiesPennsylvania State University · English
Active 2009–2022
About
Shirley Moody-Turner is an associate professor of English and African American Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She is interested in creating collaborative spaces to support digital scholarship and recovery work, working across institutions and engaging various publics in these efforts. She has collaborated with the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University to digitize the Anna Julia Cooper papers and co-organized Douglass Day 2020, which involved transcribing papers from the Anna Julia Cooper collection. Moody-Turner has published extensively in these areas, including works such as Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation, the co-edited volume Contemporary African American Literature: The Living Canon, and African American Literature in Transition 1900-1910. Most recently, she edited the Portable Anna Julia Cooper (Penguin-Random House, 2022) and is working on an interpretive biography of Cooper for Yale University Press.
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