EP 45: Dr. Karen Flynn | Moving Beyond Borders

SHOW NOTES:
This is the fifth episode in the EDpat Literature Review Series, which focuses on documented literature that centers that Black EDpatriate and black travel narratives. This week we’ll hear from Dr. Karyn Flynn, an Associate professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and the Department of African-American Studies Program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Flynn received her Ph.D. in Women's Studies from York University, Toronto, Ontario. Her research interests include migration and travel, Black Canada, health, popular culture, feminism, and diasporic and post-colonial studies.
 We discuss her book Moving Beyond Borders: Black Canadian and Caribbean women in the African Canadian Diaspora, which was published by the University of Toronto and won the Lavinia L. Dock Award from the American Association of the History of Nursing.

We also discussed Dr. Flynn's current and second book project that maps the travel itineraries of young Black EFL teachers across borders. This is significant because Dr. Flynn wrote the forward for the book TrailBlAsian: Black Women living in South Asia, which includes narratives from some Black EFL teachers in South Korea. If you haven’t listened, be sure to go back to episode 39, an interview with TK Mclennon, the curator of the book Trailblasian and episode 41, an interview with Kenya Evans, one of the book chapter authors. I hope you all enjoy the episode as much as I do. Without further delay please enjoy my conversation with Dr. Karen Flynn.

 SOCIAL MEDIA HANDLES AND PROFILE LINKS: https://afro.illinois.edu/directory/profile/kcflynn
Twitter. @KarenFlynnPhD

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Brown, N. M., Mendenhall, R., Black, M., Moer, M. V., Flynn, K., McKee, M., Zerai, A., Lourentzou, I., & Zhai, C. X. (2019). In Search of Zora/When Metadata Isn’t Enough: Rescuing the Experiences of Black Women Through Statistical Modeling. Journal of Library Metadata, 19(3-4), 141-162. https://doi.org/10.1080/19386389.2019.1652967

Flynn, K., & Fladejebi, F. (2019). Writing black canadian women's history: Where we have been and where we are going. In Reading Canadian Women's and Gender History (pp. 63-89). University of Toronto press.

Flynn, K. (2018). "Hotel Refuses Negro Nurse": Gloria Clarke Baylis and the Queen Elizabeth Hotel. Canadian bulletin of medical history = Bulletin canadien d'histoire de la medecine, 35(2), 278-308. https://doi.org/10.3138/cbmh.256-042018

Flynn, K. (2017). Reconfiguring Black Internationalism: English as Foreign Language Teachers of African Descent in South Korea. Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage, 6(3), 262-283. https://doi.org/10.1080/21619441.2017.1385960

Brown, N. M., Mendenhall, R., Black, M. L., Moer, M. V., Zerai, A., & Flynn, K. (2016). Mechanized Margin to Digitized Center: Black Feminism's Contributions to Combatting Erasure within the Digital Humanities. International Journal of Humanities & Arts Computing: A Journal of Digital Humanities, 10(1), 110-125. https://doi.org/10.3366/ijhac.2016.0163

Flynn, K. (2011). Moving Beyond Borders: A History of Black Canadian and Caribbean Women in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 
 
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