found: African American National Biography, accessed September 16, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Tate, Claudia; literary scholar; born 14 December 1946 in Long Branch, New Jersey, United States; bachelor degree in English and American Literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1968); Ph.D. in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard University (1977); taught at Howard University and Princeton University; fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities (1979-1980); distinguished visiting scholar, University of Delaware and Rutgers University (1986 -1987); belonged to the Modern Language Association and the American Studies Association; served on the editorial advisory boards of the African American Review, American Literature, the American Quarterly, and SIGNS; was a fellow of the National Humanities Center (1999-2000); died 29 July 2002 in Fair Haven, New Jersey, United States)
