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  • Sidra Smith

    Sidra Smith earned her PhD from Tufts University, with a focus on late nineteenth and early twentieth century African American literature. Since earning her doctorate, she has taught literature, writing, and Black cultural expression at both secondary schools and institutions of higher education. She recently accepted an adjunct position at the Peabody College of Vanderbilt.
  • Seth Horton

    D. Seth Horton is a critic and creative writer who focuses mostly on the regional literature of the Borderlands and American Southwest. He earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Arizona and a Ph.D. in American literature from the University of Maryland. His work has appeared in more than forty publications. Two of his stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His latest book was an anthology, Road to Nowhere and Other New Stories from the Southwest, which was published by the University of New Mexico Press in 2018. He currently teaches literature, writing, and creative writing in the Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies program at the University of Virginia.
  • Sabrina Bramwell

    Sabrina Bramwell (she/her) is a first-year Ph.D. student at Howard University. Her literary and research focus includes Caribbean and African American works, concentrating on recorded acts of resistance in Anglocreole cultures and traditions alongside Afrofuturism. She is interested in processes like creolization and marronage alongside Afrofuturist techniques that are processes engaged in recovering the value of cultural expressions. She is cognizant of the ways in which dominant and submerged narratives have historically framed culture and identity and hopes to make a digital contribution through archival works and interactive pedagogy. Prior to enrolling at Howard University, Sabrina completed her Bachelor of Arts degree at SUNY Geneseo and proceeded to work in the Office of Admissions as a regional New York City counselor for 3 years. Currently, when she is not studying or engaged in research, Sabrina can be found journaling, watching a new sci-fi/superhero movie in theatres, or playing (competitive) games with her family.
  • Robin Brooks

    Robin Brooks, PhD is a scholar who examines cultural matters concerning Black communities in the United States and the wider African Diaspora. She is an assistant professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, and her current research focuses particularly on African American and English-speaking Caribbean populations with special attention to matters of inequality and social justice. Her primary research and teaching interests include contemporary cultural and literary studies as well as working-class studies, Black feminist theory, postcolonial studies, digital humanities, higher education management, and education policy. She is the author of several publications on writers and literature of the African Diaspora, including Class Interruptions: Inequality and Division in African Diasporic Women’s Fiction (University of North Carolina Press, 2022), which is a book that examines how contemporary writers use literary portrayals of class to critique inequalities and divisions in the U.S. and Caribbean. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh, she was a Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of San Diego and a Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of South Florida. For the 2019-2020 academic year, she was a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in residence at Emory University. Website: DrRobinBrooks.com.
  • Portia Owusu

    Portia Owusu (PhD, SOAS, University of London) (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University, where she teaches and researches topics in African American, African, and diaspora literature. Her research interests are history/ historiography; memory; cultural philosophy, and contemporary narratives of slavery. She has published on these topics in articles and in her book, Spectres from the Past: Slavery and the Politics of "History" in West African and African-American Literature (Routledge, 2019). Her current project is on death and mourning in Africa and the diaspora.
  • Nicole Jenkins

    Nicole Dezrea Jenkins is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Howard University. She received her Doctoral degree from the University of Nevada Las Vegas in the Department of Sociology in 2020. She obtained an M.A. in Sociology in 2017 and B.A. in Sociology in 2015 from the University of Nevada Las Vegas. In 2013, she received an A.A. in Criminal Justice after serving six years of active duty in the United States Air Force as Military Police. She is a proud advocate for social justice and committed to teaching with such emphasis on topics such as race and ethnicity, poverty, and the Black community. As a qualitative researcher, she incorporates intersectional and critical feminist frameworks into her own research, centering the experiences of women of color. Her most current research project incorporates two years of ethnographic data collection in a Las Vegas African hair braiding salon. She discusses labor, identity making in the African diaspora, work-family balance, and the racialized politics of appearance for Black women. Her findings provide a look inside the lived experiences of women of African diaspora and insight into some of the most significant parts of their identities. Nicole D. Jenkins is currently completing her first monograph, "'CROWNed: Black Women’s Entanglement with Beauty, Work, and Family." The manuscript is an extension of her dissertation research and examines the lived experiences of women of the African Diaspora throughout various institutions in the U.S. Specifically, the institutions of beauty, work, and family. Her most current research expands on concerns of natural hair discrimination and examines its Global impact on people of the African Diaspora.
  • Michelle Cowin Gibbs

    Michelle Cowin Gibbs, Ph.D. M.F.A. (she/her) is an assistant professor and head of the B.A. program in Theatre Arts at Illinois Wesleyan University. Her scholarly research interests include a spectrum of interdisciplinary studies in Black theatre, dance, and performance. As a Zora Neale Hurston scholar, Michelle is interested in tracing the relationship among Hurston’s work as an anthropologist, ethnographer, and playwright. Her current work is a digital project that cross-references Hurston’s play text and her other digital archives to examine Hurston's perceptions of early 20th century Black women identities. As a solo performance artist, Michelle uses her body as a site for inquiry into how Black racialization and Black female sexualization manifest into performances of affect - teetering between the spaces of tragic/comical and repulsive/alluring. Recent solo performance works include: A Thing Held in Full View, a commentary on race, gender, and women's reproductive rights in Texas and Blunt-Force Trauma: A Mother's Performance in Empathy, a feminist autoethnographic performance that explores the relationship among motherhood, cruelty, and forgiveness. Michelle received a Ph.D. in Theatre from Bowling Green State University. She holds an M.F.A. in Acting from the University of California, Irvine and a B.A. in Theatre Performance from Western Michigan University.
  • Maggie Brown-Peoples

    Maggie Brown-Peoples is a first-year Master’s student in Museum Studies at the University of Kansas and an intern at the Spencer Museum of Art. She is looking forward to being a part of important work from treasured people. All of her work is in honor of those before who allowed her to be where she is as a Black woman. Digitally we are connected, but we must highlight the Black voices we are disconnected from.
  • Lavonda Kay Broadnax

    Lavonda Kay Broadnax’s primary research interest is the diverse set of literature written by African American women who lived during the U.S. Civil War. Her initial compilation, of the online version of these works, was the catalyst for her to win the Zora Neale Hurston Award. This award is given by the American Library Association for leadership in promoting African-American literature. The compilation has been expanded and now resides on the Library of Congress website @ African American Women Authors of the Civil War Era: A Resource Guide. Ms. Broadnax earned her B.A. from Oberlin College and her M.S.L.S. from Case Western Reserve University.
  • Kyr R. Mack

    Kyr R. Mack (he/him) is a Master Instructor at Howard University where he teaches freshman composition and technical communications courses. He received his Master of Arts in English with concentrations in African American Literature and Rhetoric from Howard University. His research interests include the African American Vernacular tradition, Black popular culture, critical pedagogy, and composition studies. Kyr’s current research project challenges discourses of power by examining writerly texts in the Black rhetorical tradition as sites of vernacular transcription.
  • Kevin Lucas

    Kevin Lucas is a lecturer in the Department of English and World Literature at Augusta University. He received a PhD in comparative literature from Emory University in December of 2019. He teaches writing, world literature, and interdisciplinary humanities at AU, and his research focuses on how ideas of sacrifice and tragedy influence artistic and political debate in Europe and North America.
  • Kevin Hales

    As a public scholar active in the fields of communication studies and Africology, Kevin J. Hales examines the lives of everyday African-descended people around the world. Hales studies ethnicity (“race”), diversity, inclusion, equity, social justice, conflict, and communication across cultures. Dr. Hales has earned a litany of prestigious research and teaching awards throughout his career. Hales has received research funding from the University of Missouri-Columbia, Newberry Library, University of Tennessee-Knoxville/Marco Institute and Center for Renaissance Studies, J. William Fulbright Scholar Program, Fulbright-Hayes Program, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), United States Department of State/Bureau of African Affairs, Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, Ohio University/Scripps College of Communication, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, among other institutions and programs. As a firm believer in fostering research projects that include collaborations with traditional intellectuals in marginalized communities, Hales has research partnerships with local scholars working among the Efik, Efut, Qua, and Igbo (Nigeria and Cameroon); Garifuna (Honduras and Belize); and Gullah/Geechee (South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida). In addition, Hales is also working with researchers in Brazil, Italy, and Sierre Leone. Dr. Hales has given lectures as a visiting scholar and researcher at several universities abroad. These include the University of Makeni (Sierra Leone), University of Oran 2 (Algeria), and Imo State University (Nigeria). Dr. Hales attended Ohio University (Ph.D. and M.A. in Communication Studies), North Carolina Central University (M.A. in History), and Fisk University (B.A. in History, Religion, and Philosophy).
  • Katelyn Shirley

    Katelyn Shirley is pursuing an M.A. in English Literature and a graduate certificate in Museum Studies. She earned her undergraduate degree in English from KU in 2018. Her research interests tend to combine ideas from both English and MUSE, and she dabbles in everything from Gothic literature to African American literature and even creative writing.
  • Karima K. Jeffrey-Legette

    An Associate Professor of English at Hampton University, Karima K. Jeffrey-Legette (she/her) is interested in African-diasporic literature and multi-ethnic American studies. She has written and lectured extensively on topics related to cultural/cross-cultural expression and has a particular interest in the response that scholars/writers have to colonization or oppression. Noted works include Speculative Films and Moving Images by or About Black Women and Girls: Watch It!, which examines the paradoxical nature of increasingly popular but oftentimes problematic depictions of African-descended women/girls in contemporary cinema involving the supernatural, science fiction, horror, and/or superheroes. As a member of the 2023 IDH Scholars Cohort, Jeffrey-Legette will expand her Black Girls Write/Right The Future project, which entails another book project and website that examine Black female content-creators in the fields of fiction, music, and animation/comics. In this instance, unlike the former text, focal consideration is given to women as the content-creators.
  • Jina DuVernay

    Jina DuVernay is a librarian and archivist and is very active in the field of librarianship serving on numerous committees and initiatives that advocate for the collection and stewardship of resources related to African American history and culture. DuVernay serves as a Councilor-at-Large for the American Library Association (ALA) and has served as an executive board member for the Black Caucus of ALA. She holds a Master's in Library and Information Science from the University of Alabama and is pursuing a PhD at Clark Atlanta University (CAU) where she is also a consultant for the CAU Center for Africana Digital Humanities.
  • Jerrica Jordan

    Jerrica Jordan (she/her) is a professor of English at Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, Texas, where she serves as co-adviser of the campus's award-winning literary magazine, Roots & Reflections. She has published articles in Feminist Modernist Literature and The Journal of American Culture and is co-editor of #MeToo and Modernism (Clemson UP, 2023). She prioritizes digital learning in the classroom and can't wait to discover more about digital humanities through the HBW Scholars Program.
  • Jalylah Burrell

    Jalylah Burrell (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Loyola Marymount University. She earned her BA in English from Spelman College, her MA in Africana Studies from New York University, and her PhD in American Studies and African American Studies from Yale University. Her scholarship was previously supported by postdoctoral fellowships at DePaul University’s African and Black Diaspora Department and Rice University’s Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Her research and teaching are focused on African Diasporic literature and popular culture and enhanced by experience as a pop culture critic, digital producer, oral historian, and deejay. Praised by XXL magazine for her "insightful, intellectual dissection of hip-hop, feminism and Black culture," she has taught and written extensively about Black popular culture and is currently at work on a book-length project on Black women humorists.
  • Glen Waters

    Glen Waters (he/him) is a Second Year MFA poet and scholar at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His scholarly interests include African American Literature, Black Popular Culture, and African American Music. Last summer, he attended the Napa Valley Writers Conference as a John Leggit scholarship recipient and workshopped poetry with Major Jackson. Glen Poetry is published in Stephen F. Austin’s Journal of Multicultural Affairs. Currently, Glen serves as a council member of Iowa City Poetry and is the editor of Black Poetry Review.
  • E. Gale Greenlee

    E. Gale Greenlee, Ph.D. (she/her) is an independent children’s literature and Black Girlhood Studies scholar and a teacher-scholar in residence at the bell hooks center at Berea College. She holds a doctorate in African American literature from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her research sits at the intersection of Black and Latinx girlhood studies, critical geography, and children’s and young adult literature. She is broadly interested in pop culture, Black Appalachian literature, memory work and Black feminist legacy keeping. She is the author of "A Blueprint for Black Girlhood: bell hooks’s Homemade Love" and co-curator of the installation in the bell hooks center. At the center, she continues to amplify hooks's children's writings as an unexplored archive of feminist thought and praxis. An aspiring children’s author, she’s currently writing about Black children and green spaces and researching the history of Black crafts at Berea College.
  • Delana J. Price

    Delana J. Price (she/her) is a second-year English literature doctoral student at the University of Kansas. She holds a Master of Arts in English and dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in Spanish and English from Marshall University. She is currently a contributing editor for the Movable Project— a grant-funded digital humanities project that collects, transcribes, and publishes personal narratives of substance use recovery in Appalachia. As a student, Delana’s scholarship explores the intersection of fan and cultural studies, as well as queer and critical race theory in popular culture narratives. Using contemporary literature, television dramas, film, and fan-produced narratives as her primary texts, she explores cultural shifts in dominant social ideologies in queer representation and self-representation in digital spaces.
  • Bryon L. Garner

    A veteran of the U.S. Navy, Bryon L. Garner (he/him) earned his Master of Liberal Arts from Johns Hopkins University and is currently completing his PhD dissertation in Interdisciplinary Studies at the Union Institute & University. Bryon has presented and written about the intersection of Blackness, veteran identity, and patriotism. His dissertation analyzes what he calls Black veteranality and racialized moral trauma through the lens of patriotism in America. In 2023, he was selected as a HigherEd Military Fellow where he published a recent article about veterans and higher education. In 2022, he served as guest editor of the Journal of Veteran Studies for a special issue on patriotism. In 2021, Bryon was published in Confluence, the Journal of the Association of Graduate Liberal Arts Programs (AGLSP). In 2020, Bryon was the subject of a Christian Science Monitor article "On Independence Day, Black Americans see hope of a larger patriotism."
  • Bria E. Paige

    Bria E. Paige (she/her) is a fourth-year doctoral candidate in the Department of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She studies twentieth and twenty-first century African American and African diasporic literature, with particular research interests in black feminist theory and black geographies as well as the public and digital humanities. Additionally, Bria has held previous graduate internships with the Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) based in Washington, D.C. and the Center for Digital Scholarship at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During her time at the NEH, Bria published a research report entitled "‘Tell Them We Are Rising:’ On HBCUs and the Digital (2010-2021)."
  • Ayana K. Weekley

    Ayana K. Weekley is an associate professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, MI. Her research and teaching interests include feminist periodical studies and Black feminist studies. Dr. Weekley’s scholarly contributions include: “Black Feminist Thought and the Gender, Women’s, and Feminist PhD: A Roundtable Discussion.” Feminist Formations, 32(2), 1-28; coeditor of Women’s Magazines in Print and New Media (Routledge, 2017) “Saving Me Through Erasure? Black Women, HIV/AIDS, and Respectability,” in Black Female Sexualities (Routledge, 2015). Dr. Weekley participated in the 2021 NEH Summer Institute “Hurston on the Horizon.”
  • Austin Anderson

    Austin Anderson (he/him) is an English Ph.D. student at Howard University where he studies American literature and culture, with a particular focus on how race is represented in visual media such as comics, video games, and visual art. His dissertation project focuses on Blackness in video games and explores how this representation is reflective of global neo-liberal conceptions of race and racial ideology. He has previously published work in The Comparatist and ASAPJ, and he has presented at MLA, AAAD, CUNY, and NYU.
  • Abisola Akinsiku

    Abisola Akinsiku (she/her) is a doctoral student and Graduate Teaching Assistant at the English Department, University of Kansas (KU). She focuses on Women's Literature and its digitization. Previously, she attended Joseph Ayo Babalola University, Nigeria, where she received her bachelor's with honors and served as a GTA. She completed her master's degree in English (Literature) at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville with distinction. In the fall of 2019, Abisola received the Competitive Graduate Award, which allowed her to research the history of female fiction writing in Nigeria, starting with Flora Nwapa. She found that some fictional texts self-published by first, and second-generation Nigerian women writers are gradually going into extinction; they need to be recovered and digitally preserved, a project she is collaborating with the University of Kansas, History of Black Writing (HBW), to accomplish. Her scholarly interests include broadly Afro-continental and Afro-diasporic literature from the 19th century till now, digital humanities, migration, and gender studies. To learn more about Abisola, visit her website here.