a poet, essayist, and novelist with five books, among them there are more beautiful things than beyoncé, magical negro, and you get what you pay for. she teaches english literature at swarthmore college.
hortense spillers
hortense-spillers
professor emerita of english
vanderbilt university
m. nourbeSe philip
m-nourbese-philip
poet, writing full time in toronto
most recently writer-in-residence, university of virginia
will alexander
will-alexander
poet-in-residence
beyond baroque literary arts center, venice, california
fred moten
fred-moten
professor of performance studies + comparative literature
new york university
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https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2020/fred-moten
josé esteban muñoz
jose-esteban-munoz
1967 to 2013 • professor of performance studies
new york university
valerie shaff
saidiya hartman
saidiya-hartman
university professor
columbia university
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https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2019/saidiya-hartman
evie shockley
evie-shockley
zora neale hurston distinguished professor of english
rutgers university
morgan parker
morgan-parker
assistant professor of english literature
swarthmore college
n.k. jemisin
n-k-jemisin
novelist, writing full time in brooklyn
an on-demand class at masterclass
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https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2020/n-k-jemisin
sylvia wynter
sylvia-wynter
professor emerita
stanford university
joy james
joy-james
ebenezer fitch professor of humanities
williams college
fahima ife
fahima-ife
associate professor of aesthetics & poetics
university of california, santa cruz
r.a. judy
r-a-judy
professor of critical and cultural studies
university of pittsburgh
