Kristen Maye

Kristen Maye is the Clara Willis Phillips Assistant Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College. She is a scholar of Black studies whose work intersects cultural studies, critical feminisms, literary theory, and critical theory. Her research interrogates knowledge production, field formation, and disciplinary boundaries within Black studies as a field of study.

• Focuses on Black literature as a creative and expressive form
• Analyzes strategies of Black writers and theorists in negotiating racialized embodiment
• Associate Editor at differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies