Panel 2 - “The Future of Black Feminist Intersectionality: U.S./Global Impact”

Open to all members of the BWSA

Panel 3 - “Black Feminist Ecologies and Materialisms”
Panel 4 - ‘Black Women Taking Up (Digital) Space”

Dr. Shanna Greene Benjamin

Dr. Shanna Greene Benjamin is a biographer and scholar who studies the literature, lives, and archives of Black women. She has published on African American literature and Black women's intellectual history in African American Review, MELUS, and PMLA, Studies in American Fiction. Her book, Half in Shadow, a biography of Norton Anthology of African American Literature co-editor Nellie Y. McKay, is forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press.

Panel 6 - “Black Women’s Liberatory Labors”

Panel 7 - “Artistic Representations of Black Women”
Panel 8 - “Beauty, the Body, and the Black Woman: Colorism, Hairism, and Beauty Politics”

“Black Feminist Ethics and Praxis in Academia”

Briana Barner, University of Maryland
Deirdre Cooper Owens, University of Connecticut
Christina Cross, Harvard University
Jallicia Jolly, Amherst College
Janaka Lewis, University of North Carolina Charlotte