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Kinitra D. Brooks

Kinitra D. Brooks is an assistant professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Her research interests include contemporary African American and Afro-Caribbean literature, black feminism, and horror studies. Her monograph, Searching for Sycorax: Black Women Haunting Contemporary Horror , is forthcoming at Rutgers University Press. Currently, she is working on a book-length exploration of black women writers and genre fluidity tentatively titled, Nalo, Nnedi, & Nora: Contemporary Black Women Writers Challenging Genre Normativity . She is also coediting a volume on black women and horror entitled Towards a Black Women’s Horror Aesthetic: Critical & Creative Frameworks with Susana M. Morris and Linda Addison. She has published articles in African American Review and FEMSPEC

Email: kinitradbrooks@gmail.com

Website: http://www.kinitradbrooks.com

John Jennings’s research and teaching focus on the analysis, explication, and disruption of African American stereotypes in popular visual media. His research is concerned with the topics of representation and authenticity, visual culture, visual literacy, social justice, and design pedagogy. He is an accomplished designer, curator, illustrator, cartoonist, and award-winning graphic novelist. His work overlaps into various disciplines including American Studies, African American Studies, Design History, Media Studies, Sociology, Women and Gender Studies, and Literature.

Email: jijennin@buffalo.edu

Web: jijennin70.tumblr.com

John Jennings

Alexis McGee

Stephanie Schoellman

Alexis, a.k.a. "Lexi," is a Ph.D. student at UTSA. Her research focuses on African American Women's Language in Blues an Hip Hop as Rhetorical Resistance and multimodal learning.

Stephanie is a Ph.D. student at UTSA. Her research focuses on the Gothic, Ethnogothic, and young adult literature.

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Jonathan Martinez

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Jonathan is a Ph.D. student from UTSA. His research interests are wilderness representations as sites of resistance, ecospirituality, ecohorror, and Chican@ studies.

Chris Guzman

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Christopher Guzman is an English Master's student at the UTSA. His concentrations are Creative Writing and Comics Studies.

Susana Ramirez

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Susana Ramirez is an English Ph.D. candidate at UTSA. Her dissertation: "NepantlerX Cosmologies: Spiritual Activism and New Queer Feminist Paradigms."