Adjunct, WGSX
Biography
Caitlyn Socrates was the inaugural Emerging Black Artist in Residence at Chatham University (2021-2022). She is a doctoral candidate at Duquesne University where she researches African American literature and Black Food studies. She is currently writing both a collection of short stories and a culinary memoir around her maternal ancestry. Her first book, Power in the Tongue (Tolsun Books) debuted in 2022. Her work appears in Midnight & Indigo, Lost Balloon, and elsewhere.
Areas of Research Specialization
- African American Literature, Film Studies, Comics & Graphic Novels, Creative Writing (Fiction and Nonfiction), Food Studies, Women and Gender Studies.
Areas of Teaching Specialization
- Women and Gender Studies, Film and Cinema Studies, Food Studies, Creative Writing, English Literature, Composition and Rhetoric
Education
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B.A. in English at Trinity Washington University, 2011
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M.F.A in Creative Writing at Chatham University, 2015
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Ph.D. in English-African American Literature and Food Studies at Duquesne University, Tentative 2025