Dr. Charles Henry Rowell is founder and editor of Callaloo,
an internationally recognized journal of African-American and
African literature. He has been a Professor in the English
Department at Texas A&M University since 2001. He entered
Alabama A&M College in 1958 and graduated with a major in
English in August of 1961. During the fall of 1961, he was
admitted to the University of Missouri at Columbia to study for
the MA degree in English, which he completed in August 1962, and
began teaching at Tougaloo College in Mississippi. He returned
to graduate school in 1964, at Ohio State University to study
for the PhD in English. He left Ohio State in 1966 to teach at
Mississippi Valley State College and a year later at Southern
University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He was a member of the
faculty at Southern until August 1977. In 1972, he completed his
doctorate at Ohio State and continued teaching at Southern,
where he founded the non-profit Callaloo in fall of 1976.
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Texas A&M University Libraries
Cordially
invites you to a reception in honor of
Twenty-Five
Years of
Callaloo
FEATURING
Dr. Charles Rowell, Editor
TUESDAY,
October
29, 2002
3:30 p.m. to
5:00 P.m.
Cushing
Memorial Library & Archives
Mayo-Thomas
Room
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