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Mildred A. Hill-Lubin
is an
Associate Professor of English with a joint appointment in the Center for
African Studies at the University of Florida, Gainesville, where she has
been a member of the faculty since 1974. From 1977-1980, she also served
as Assistant Dean in the Graduate School. Her research, teaching and
publications focus on parallels, commonalities, and linkages in African
and African American Literature, with emphasis on African continuities in
the Diaspora. Hill-Lubin is the Co-editor of Toward Defininia,
an African Aesthetic and she is completing a book-length
publication on the Grandmother in African American Literature. She teaches
African American Literature with a special interest in Black Women Writers
and has published significantly on Ama Ata Aidoo, a woman writer from
Ghana.
Hill-Lubin received her Bachelor's degree in English from Paine College,
Augusta, Georgia, her Master's degree in English from Western Reserve
University, Cleveland and her doctorate in English and African Studies
from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has done additional
study at Indiana University, University of Minnesota, and Cape Coast
University, Ghana, West Africa.
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