Carole Boyce Davies is interested in African diaspora studies, global Black women's writing, comparative Black literature, African literature, Caribbean oral and written literature, transnational feminist theory, and Black women and political leadership in the African diaspora. She is faculty in the Africana Studies and Research Center and the Department of Literatures in English.

Davies is active in Einaudi's inequalities, identities, and justice global research priority and contributes to IIJ's global Blackness events.