Caroline Davis (publishing)

Caroline Davis is a British academic who is a senior lecturer of publishing at Oxford Brookes University.

Davis specialises in post-colonial publishing, with a focus on the CIA relationship with the publishing industry during the Cold War and print cultures in South Africa. She is a winner of the Mid-Career Fellowship awarded by the British Academy.

Selected publications

Books

• African Literature and the CIA: Networks of Authorship and Publishing. 2020 (Cambridge University Press)
• Print Cultures: A Reader in Theory and Practice. 2019. (Macmillan Education)
• The Book in Africa. 2015. (Palgrave Macmillan UK)

Journal articles

• 'A Question of Power: Bessie Head and her Publishers' Journal of Southern African Studies 44 (3) (2018) pp. 491–506 ISSN: 0305-7070 eISSN: 1465–3893.
• 'Publishing anti-apartheid literature: Athol Fugard's Statements plays Journal of Commonwealth Literature 48 (1) (2013) pp. 113–129 ISSN: 0021–9894.
• 'Publishing Wole Soyinka: Oxford University Press and the creation of "Africa's own William Shakespeare" Journal of Postcolonial Writing 48 (4) (2012) pp. 344–358 ISSN: 1744–9855.
• 'Histories of publishing under apartheid: Oxford University Press in South Africa' Journal of Southern African Studies 37 (1) (2011) pp. 79–98 ISSN: 0305-7070 eISSN: 1465–3893.