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Duriel E. Harris serves as an Associate Professor of English in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at Illinois State University and holds the editorial leadership of Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, a seminal peer-reviewed journal established in 1975 that advances global contemporary African diasporic arts through publication and scholarly inquiry.
Her creative scholarship centers on intersectional performance art and experimental poetry, critically engaging Black feminist aesthetics and liberation philosophies. As co-founder of Call & Response—a platform dedicated to Black women's performance praxis—and the avant-garde collective Black Took Collective (BTC), Harris pioneers multidisciplinary explorations of identity and resistance. Her acclaimed solo work Thingification dynamically interprets Funkadelic's ethos (Free your mind... and your ass will follow
) through sonic and linguistic innovation.
Harris maintains active artistic partnerships with the Poetry Foundation, PEN America, and visual artist Scott Rankin through Experiments in Joy, while her performances resonate at major venues including the Chicago Jazz Festival (with Douglas Ewart & Inventions ensemble), MPAACT Showcases, Dixon Place, and NYC's Wild Project. Her pedagogical impact in graduate creative writing is recognized through multiple institutional awards, though specific student names remain unlisted in source materials.
