Bell hooks

bell hooks is a cultural critic, feminist theorist and scholar. Born and raised in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, bell received her B.A. from Stanford University and her Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Cruz. She divides her time among teaching, writing, and lecturing around the world. Previously a professor in the English departments at Yale University and Oberlin College, hooks is now Distnguished Professor of English at City College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. bell is the author of more than sixteen books including Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work, Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life, Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood, Killing Rage: Ending Racism, Art on My Mind: Visual Politics, Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representation, and Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life