Claudia Tate

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Claudia Tate (1947 – 2002) 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 the psychological.^{[citation needed]}

Tate was born in Long Branch, New Jersey. She earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D from Harvard University. She taught at the historic black school Howard University for 12 years before teaching at George Washington University and then Princeton. She then decided to teach African-American studies at Yale University.

Tate's most notable scholarly book is 1983's Black Women Writers at Work.

Tate died of lung cancer in 2002.

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