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Biography
LaRose Parris
LaRose T. Parris is Associate Professor of Africana Studies. She received her Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate Center, where she was awarded the Melvin Dixon Prize for Best Dissertation in African American Studies. Her first book, Being Apart: Theoretical and Existential Resistance in Africana Literature (2015) was awarded the Nicolás Guillén Prize for Outstanding Book in Philosophical Literature by the Caribbean Philosophical Association in 2016. Professor Parris’s fiction and scholarly articles have appeared in Callaloo, Stirrings Still: The Journal of Existential Literature, Journal of Pan African Studies, Review of Education, Pedagogy, & Cultural Studies, Entre Letras, Global Psychologies: Mental Health and the Global South, and Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg, among other peer-reviewed books and journals. Her research interests include Africana Philosophy, Black/Africana Existentialism, African Diaspora Literature, Black Feminist Thought, and Critical Race Studies in Philosophy.