Claudia Tate (December 14, 1947 – July 29, 2002)[1][2] was a noted literary critic and professor of English and African American Studies at Princeton University.
She is credited with moving African-American literary criticism into the realm of psychology.
Tate's most notable scholarly book is Black Women Writers at Work.
[4] She was also the author of two other major works, Domestic Allegories of Political Desire: The Black Heroine's Text at the Turn of the Century (1992) and Psychoanalysis and Black Novels: Desire and the Protocols of Race (1998).
[2] Tate died of lung cancer in 2002, aged 54, in Fair Haven, New Jersey.