Simone Drake
Professor | African and African American Studies
486F University Hall
230 North Oval Mall
Columbus, OH
43210
Areas of Expertise
- African Diaspora in the Anglophone Caribbean
Education
- M.S.L., The Ohio State University (2013)
- Ph.D., English Literature, University of Maryland (2007)
- M.A., African American and African Studies, The Ohio State University (2000)
- B.A., Classical Civilization, Denison University (1997)
Simone Drake is a Youngberg Distinguished Professor of African and African American Studies. Her recent publications include When We Imagine Grace: Black Men and Subject Making (University of Chicago Press, 2016); and Critical Appropriations: African American Women and the Construction of Transnational Identity (Louisiana State University Press, Southern Literary Studies Series, May 2014). Her courses taught include AAAS 3310: Global Dimension on the African Diaspora; and AAAS 3260: Global Black Cultural Movements.