Glenda R. Carpio
Glenda R. Carpio is Professor of African and African American Studies and English at Harvard University. Her book, Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery was published by Oxford University Press in 2008. She is currently working on a book on immigration, expatriation, and exile in American literature. Carpio has been named one of the ROOT.com 100 for 2010. Education. Carpio received her Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and her B.A. was earned at Vassar College. She was awarded tenure at Harvard University in both the English and African  and African American Studies departments. Career. Carpio started her teaching career in Compton, California where she taught 8th grade English and 4th grade through the Teach for America program. She taught at University of California at Berkeley, Pace University, and New York University prior to coming to Harvard University. She recently received Harvard University's Abramson Award for Excellence and Sensitivity in Undergraduate Teaching. Personal life. At 12, Carpio came to America as a Guatemalan immigrant without knowing a word of English. She splits her time between Harvard and Venice, where her husband lives.