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Maia L. Butler is assistant professor of African American literature at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she is also affiliate faculty in women's and gender studies and Africana studies. She is a literary geographer researching and teaching in African American/diasporic, Anglophone postcolonial, and American (broadly conceived) studies, with an emphasis on Black women's literature and feminist theories. Joanna Davis-McElligatt is assistant professor of Black literary and cultural studies in the Department of English at the University of North Texas, where she is affiliate faculty in women's and gender studies. She is coeditor of Narratives of Marginalized Identities in Higher Education: Inside and Outside the Academy. Megan Feifer is a Teacher-Scholar in Residence at the bell hooks center at Berea College. Her research and teaching interests focus on the counter-archives contemporary Afro-diasporic writers produced in response to what Anne McClintock terms the "official ghosting," or inability/unwillingness of nations to confront and account for the "past." Her work has been published in Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International; Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat; and Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era. She is cofounder of the Edwidge Danticat Society and cocreator of bellhooksarchive.com, a digital repository of select artifacts from the bell hooks papers currently housed in the Special Collections and Archives of Berea College.
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