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Dr. Mollie Godfrey
@molliegodfrey.bsky.social
Professor of English, working on African American literature, community-engaged archival recovery practice, and Black digital and public humanities (she/her, opinions my own)
Colleagues: my department is hiring! Open field position for advanced associate or full professor of English. Please help me spread the word! jobs.jmu.edu/jobs/academi...
Academic Unit Head - Department of English - Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States
Working Title: Academic Unit Head - Department of English State Role Title: N/A Position Type: Instructional / Teaching Faculty Position Status: Full-Time FLSA Status: Exempt: Not Eligible for Overtim...
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October 2, 2025 at 11:29 AM
A small bright spot this evening - my author copies arrived! Feeling so much gratitude for my people and for the much-missed NEH for supporting my research. Get yours here: ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...
April 14, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Reposted by Dr. Mollie Godfrey
Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not.

An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Reposted by Dr. Mollie Godfrey
Mercy.

No criminal record for 75% of the people snatched and sent to a mega prison in El Salvador. And no due process for any of them.
60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
April 7, 2025 at 10:13 AM
So excited to re-find this lovely community. Forgive me for launching with a shameless self-plug, but my new book is now available for pre-orders (use discount code GODFREY for 30% off). Many thanks to my people who've seen me through this project. We need our people around us more now than ever.
Brave Humanism: Black Women Rewriting the Human in the Age of Jane Crow
Recovers Jane Crow–era Black women’s writing as a challenge to the white supremacist and patriarchal logics of Western humanism that underwrote de jure segregation.
ohiostatepress.org
November 20, 2024 at 1:16 PM