Robert J. Patterson is a professor of African American Studies and served as the inaugural chair of the Department of African American Studies at Georgetown University. He is the author of Destructive Desires: Rhythm and Blues Culture and the Politics of Racial Equality.
Aida Levy-Hussen is an Associate Professor of English Literature and Language at the University of Michigan. She is the author of How to Read African American Literature: Post-Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of Interpretation (2016) and co-editor of The Psychic Hold of Slavery: Legacies in American Expressive Culture (2016)
Margo Natalie Crawford is an associate professor of English at Cornell University.
Régine Michelle Jean-Charles is a Black feminist literary scholar and cultural critic specializing in francophone studies. She is the director of Africana studies, Dean’s Professor of Culture and Social Justice, and professor of Africana studies and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Northeastern University. The focus of her scholarship and teaching on world literatures in French is on Black France, Sub Saharan Africa, Haiti, and the Haitian Diaspora. She is the author of Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary (Ohio State Universiry Press, 2014), Martin Luther King and The Trumpet of Conscience Today (Orbis Books, 2021), and Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction (University of Virginia Press, 2022).
GerShun Avilez is an associate professor of English at the University of Maryland. He is the author of Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism.
