Linda Chavers is the Allston Burr Resident Dean of Winthrop House and Assistant Dean of Harvard College and a Lecturer in the department of African and African American Studies at Harvard. She completed her PhD in African American Studies with a focus on literature in 2013 from Harvard University. She specializes in 20th and 21st century fiction and the written narratives of enslaved black women. Her dissertation examines interracial themes in the literature of Richard Wright and William Faulkner. She writes essays and memoir for various publications such as Gawker, Dame, Elle, The Offing and Rumpus. Her class, Black Women and #MeToo, puts the narratives of enslaved Black American women in conversation with today’s cultural movements around sexual assault.
Justin Fugo received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Temple University. His research is a practice of liberatory philosophical critique, and broadly aims to: 1) foster social transformation through innovative engagement with persistent philosophical problems, as well as contemporary real-world issues; 2) alter the academic landscape by drawing on marginalized traditions in order to render the philosophical canon more inclusive and diverse, and to offer alternative resources for fueling said innovative engagement. Recently, Fugo has published essays in Sartre Studies International and Radical Philosophy Review.
Stephanie Miodus, M.A,, M.Ed. is a Ph.D. student in School Psychology at Temple University. Clinically, she is interested in working with children with autism and youth in juvenile detention. Her main research interest is the school to prison pipeline for children with autism and alternatives to harsh disciplinary practices in schools that push children out of classrooms and into the justice system.
Website: www.stephaniemiodus.com
Elizabeth Sunflower is an Assistant Professor in the Intellectual Heritage Program. She received her MFA in Creative Writing with an emphasis on poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. As a poet, she she is interested the parallel narratives of the literal and the symbolic in poetry. As a teacher, she enjoys using performance, visual art, and creative writing in the classroom as tools for close reading and critical thinking.