Andrea E Shaw Nevins

Andrea Nevins is the Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs and a professor of English at Nova Southeastern University. She has held various leadership roles at NSU, including former dean of the Farquhar Honors College, and she is particularly interested in finding ways to create greater operating efficiencies as well as enhancing the experience of the students and faculty with whom she works. She graduated from Florida International University with a B.B.A. in business, an M.A. in English, and an M.F.A in creative writing and from the University of Miami with a Ph.D. in English. Her areas of academic focus are Caribbean literature and popular culture as well as creative writing. She is author of The Embodiment of Disobedience: Fat Black Women's Unruly Political Bodies (2006) and Working Juju : Representations of the Caribbean Fantastic (2019).  Her fiction as well as her scholarly writing have been published in numerous journals, including Small Axe, World Literature Today, sx salon, MaComére, The Caribbean Writer, Crab Orchard Review, Feminist Media Studies, and Social Semiotics.