Claudia Tate

Claudia Tate
Born	Rosa Cuthbert (1947-12-14)December 14, 1947 Long Branch, New Jersey, U.S.
Died	July 29, 2002(2002-07-29) (aged 54) Fair Haven, New Jersey, US
Alma mater	University of Michigan; Harvard University
Occupation(s)	Literary critic and professor
Notable work	Black Women Writers at Work

Claudia Tate (December 14, 1947 – July 29, 2002)[1][2] was a noted literary critic and professor of English and African American Studies at Princeton University. She is credited with moving African-American literary criticism into the realm of psychology.[3]

Life and career

Tate was born in Long Branch, New Jersey. She earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D from Harvard University. She taught at the historic black school Howard University for 12 years before teaching at George Washington University. She then decided to teach African-American studies at Princeton University.

Tate's most notable scholarly book is Black Women Writers at Work.[4] She was also the author of two other major works, Domestic Allegories of Political Desire: The Black Heroine's Text at the Turn of the Century (1992) and Psychoanalysis and Black Novels: Desire and the Protocols of Race (1998).[2]

Tate died of lung cancer in 2002, aged 54, in Fair Haven, New Jersey.[5][6]

References

1. Death notice, The New York Times, September 15, 2002.
2. Yolanda Williams Page (ed.), "Claudia Tate (1946-2002)", Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007, pp. 544–56.
3. Painter, Nell Irvin (2003). "Introduction: Claudia Tate and the Protocols of Black Literature and Scholarship". The Journal of African American History. 88 (1): 59–65. doi:10.2307/3559048. ISSN 1548-1867. JSTOR 3559048. S2CID 144709104.
4. Black Women Writers At Work. New York, NY: Continuum International Publishing Group, 1984. ISBN 0-8264-0232-1.
5. "Paid Notice: Deaths TATE, CLAUDIA". The New York Times. 15 September 2002. Archived from the original on September 5, 2014. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
6. Painter, Nell Irvin, "Claudia Tate and the Protocols of Black Literature and Scholarship", Journal of African American History, 88:1 (Winter 2003) (via Nell Irvin Painter website).