Thadious Davis

Davis has a B.S. from Southern University and an M.A. from Atlanta University.{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1234024826 |title=The concise Oxford companion to American literature |date=2021 |editor-first=James D.|editor-last= Hart|editor2=Wendy Martin|editor3=Danielle Hinrichs |isbn=978-0-19-187211-2 |edition=Second |location=Oxford |chapter=Davis, Thadious M. (1944-) |oclc=1234024826}} She earned her Ph.D. from Boston University.{{Cite web |last=Davis |first=Thadious M. |date=1986 |title=Faulkner's 'Negro' : art and the Southern context, 1926-1936 {{!}} WorldCat.org |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/1127529756 |access-date=2023-02-11 |website=www.worldcat.org |language=en}}

She has been a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Brown University, and Vanderbilt University, where she held the position of the Gertrude Conway Vanderbilt Professor of English. As of 2022, she is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

Davis has been a fellow at multiple libraries, including the Newberry Library in Chicago, the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, where she held the R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellowship.{{Cite web |title=Department of English {{!}} Thadious Davis |url=https://www.english.upenn.edu/people/thadious-davis |access-date=2022-02-11 |website=www.english.upenn.edu}}

Davis is known for her writings on race, gender, and region.{{Cite journal |last=Sullivan |first=Mecca Jamilah |date=2019-08-18 |title=Practices of Imagination: Learning from the Vision of Thadious Davis |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2019.1639506 |journal=Women's Studies |volume=48 |issue=6 |pages=593–599 |doi=10.1080/00497878.2019.1639506 |s2cid=203081309 |issn=0049-7878|url-access=subscription }} She wrote a biography of Nella Larsen, Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance, and edited the Penguin Classics editions of both of Larsen's books: Passing and Quicksand.

Davis's 2009 book, Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner's Go Down Moses, received honorable mention for the William Sanders Scarborough Prize Winners given by from the Modern Language Association.{{Cite web |title=William Sanders Scarborough Prize Winners |url=https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/MLA-Grants-and-Awards/Winners-of-MLA-Prizes/Annual-Prize-and-Award-Winners/William-Sanders-Scarborough-Prize-Winners |access-date=2023-02-11 |website=Modern Language Association |language=en}} Her 2014 book, Southscapes: Geographies of Race, Region, Literature focuses on writings by black southern writers from Mississippi and Louisiana.{{Cite web |title=Southscapes {{!}} Thadious M. Davis |url=https://uncpress.org/book/9781469621951/southscapes/ |access-date=2023-02-11 |website=University of North Carolina Press |language=en-US}}

• {{Cite book |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/611732169 |title=Nella Larsen, novelist of the Harlem Renaissance : a woman's life unveiled |date=1996 |publisher=Louisiana State University Press |isbn=0-8071-2070-7 |oclc=611732169}}Reviews of Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance:
• {{Cite journal |last1=Pavletich |first1=JoAnn |date=1997 |title=Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman's Life Unveiled. Thadious M. Davis |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/468003 |journal=MELUS |volume=22 |issue=4 |pages=198 |doi=10.2307/468003 |jstor=468003 |issn=0163-755X|url-access=subscription }}
• {{Cite journal |last=McLendon |first=Jacquelyn Y. |date=1996 |title=Review of Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman's Life Unveiled. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3042545 |journal=African American Review |volume=30 |issue=3 |pages=478–481 |doi=10.2307/3042545 |jstor=3042545 |issn=1062-4783|url-access=subscription }}
• {{Cite journal |last=Roses |first=Lorraine Elena |date=1994 |title=Stranger than Fiction |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4022019 |journal=The Women's Review of Books |volume=12 |issue=3 |pages=21 |doi=10.2307/4022019 |jstor=4022019 |issn=0738-1433|url-access=subscription }}
• {{Cite news |last=Walker |first=Robbie Jean |date=1995-03-26 |title=Harlem Renaissance writer receives praise she deserves |pages=80 |work=The Montgomery Advertiser |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/118410371/harlem-renaissance-writer-receives/ |access-date=2023-02-11}}
• {{Cite book |last=Davis |first=Thadious M. |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/743402243 |title=Games of Property : Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner's 'Go Down, Moses'. |date=2009 |publisher=Duke University Press Books |oclc=743402243}}Reviews of Games of Property:
• {{Cite journal |last=Fowler |first=Doreen |date=2005 |editor-last=Davis |title=Interpreting Faulkner in a Postmodern Age |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20078433 |journal=The Southern Literary Journal |volume=38 |issue=1 |pages=135–141 |jstor=20078433 |issn=0038-4291}}
• {{Cite journal |last=Ramsey |first=D. Matthew |date=2004 |title=Review of Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner's "Go Down, Moses" |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26286319 |journal=Modern Fiction Studies |volume=50 |issue=3 |pages=748–750 |jstor=26286319 |issn=0026-7724}}
• {{Cite journal |last=Pilditch |first=Jan |date=2004 |title=Review of Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender and Faulkner's Go Down, Moses |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41053976 |journal=Australasian Journal of American Studies |volume=23 |issue=1 |pages=123–125 |jstor=41053976 |issn=1838-9554}}
• {{Cite book |last=Davis |first=Thadious M. |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/957516662 |title=Southscapes Geographies of Race, Region, and Literature |date=2014 |publisher=The University of North Carolina Press |isbn=978-1-4696-0255-4 |oclc=957516662}}Reviews of Southscapes: Geographies of Race, Region, and Literature:
• {{Cite journal |last=Bone |first=Martyn |date=2012 |title=Review of Southscapes: Geographies of Race, Region, and Literature |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23783526 |journal=African American Review |volume=45 |issue=4 |pages=662–665 |doi=10.1353/afa.2012.0098 |jstor=23783526 |s2cid=160073948 |issn=1062-4783|url-access=subscription }}
• {{Cite journal |last=Teutsch |first=Matthew |date=2014 |title=Review of SOUTHSCAPES: Geographies of Race, Region, and Literature |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24396725 |journal=Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association |volume=55 |issue=3 |pages=382–383 |jstor=24396725 |issn=0024-6816}}
• {{Cite journal |last=Dugan |first=Olga |title=Renegade Poetics, Southscapes, and the Poetry of History in Natasha Trethewey's Thrall |date=2013 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5323/jafriamerhist.98.2.0304 |journal=The Journal of African American History |volume=98 |issue=2 |pages=304–319 |doi=10.5323/jafriamerhist.98.2.0304 |jstor=10.5323/jafriamerhist.98.2.0304 |s2cid=148182531 |issn=1548-1867|url-access=subscription }} [Reviewed works: Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry, Evie Shockley; Southscapes: Geographies of Race, Region, and Literature, Thadious Davis; Thrall: Poems, Natasha Trethewey.]

In 1994, Davis received the Anna Julia Cooper Award for Feminist Scholarship from Spelman College. In 1995, the College Language Association presented Davis with an award for creative scholarship for her book on Nella Larsen.

Davis received a lifetime achievement award from the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature in 2007. In 2017, she received the Callaloo's Lifetime Achievement Award for American Literary and Cultural Studies.

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