APPLY
VISIT
GIVE
Dr. Alice Nicholas is an Africologist and Lecturer in the Department of Africana Studies at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH). She is an alumna of CSUDH, earning both her B.A. (a dual major in Africana Studies and English), and her M.A. in Africology (a program she created) at CSUDH. She earned her doctorate in Africology and African American Studies from Temple University in 2019.
Dr. Nicholas’ research focuses on literature of the African Diaspora, and the creation of Afrocentric literary theory, used specifically in the examination of the role of Black women’s literature as a liberatory device. She has received several grants and research awards, including the Stephen Couvillion Memorial Award, and the Temple University Community Research Award, as well as the Certificate of Scholarly Advancement from the Diopian Institute for Scholarly Advancement.
Dr. Nicholas’ works are included in various publications, including African American Review, Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America, The Harlem Renaissance: An Encyclopedia of Arts, Culture, and History (upcoming), and Voices of Leimert Park (Loyola Marymount University, Harriet Tubman Press).
Officially inducted as the first Djelimusa of the Department of Africology and African American Studies at Temple University, Dr. Nicholas has published numerous books from the 10 Million Stories series, a collection she created in 1999. The upcoming, volume 9, “Reflections of an Africologist,” will be published Summer 2020.
Recent Papers and Presentations:2019, November - Ebonic Steganography: Literature as Coded Word. Paper presented at the 21st Annual Ebonics Conference, CSU Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA.
2019, March - “All These Words from the Seller, but Not One Word from the Sold”: (Re)Humanizing the Object in Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon. Paper presented at the 43rd Annual National Council for Black Studies Conference, New Orleans, LA
2019, March – Demanding Freedom: Black Self-Determination and Survival. Session Chair at the 43rd Annual National Council for Black Studies Conference, New Orleans, LA.
2018, October - “As Told by Himself”: Humanizing the Object in Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon. Paper presented at the 30th Annual Cheikh Anta Diop Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
2018, March - From Co-Creation to Contemporary: Black Women's Literary Spaces in the Academy. Paper presented at the 42nd Annual National Council for Black Studies Conference, Atlanta, GA.
2018, February - The Language of Her Hair. Paper presented at the Natural Hair Symposium, OAAGS Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.