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Aiesha Turman serves as a Lecturer in the Writing & Critical Inquiry Program at the University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY). She is a new faculty member with prior teaching experience at New York City College of Technology (CUNY), Hunter College (CUNY), and Nassau County Community College (SUNY), focusing on critical inquiry and expressive writing pedagogy.
Her academic background includes:
- PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies (Humanities and Culture) with certificates in Creative Writing and Women’s and Gender Studies from The Union Institute & University
- MA in Liberal Studies from Empire State University (SUNY)
- BA in Cultural Studies from Empire State University (SUNY)
- Documentary Filmmaking and Producing Intensive from Maysles Institute
Dr. Turman operates as an Afrofuturist Ethnographer and Trauma and Memory Theorist, investigating how Black feminist literary traditions serve as technologies of protest through Afrofuturist frameworks. Her work centers on the interplay between historical trauma, collective memory, and speculative futures within African and African Diaspora communities, emphasizing resilience against systemic oppression. She examines cultural practices through lenses of identity, power dynamics, and social justice, with her dissertation There’s Always Been an Afrofuture: Black Women’s Literature as Technology of Protest establishing foundational connections between Black pasts and futures.
Her teaching manifests these research commitments through seminars like Writing and Critical Inquiry: The Many Faces of Love, which critically engages bell hooks’ All About Love, Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider, and Toni Morrison’s Beloved alongside films (Moonlight, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and podcasts to analyze love’s intersections with race, gender, and sexuality.
