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Elleza Kelley is an Assistant Professor of English and Black Studies at Yale University, serving as Director of the Undergraduate Black Studies Department with affiliate faculty status in American Studies. Her academic appointments reflect her interdisciplinary approach to studying Black cultural production.
Dr. Kelley earned her Ph.D. in English from Columbia University and her B.A. from Wesleyan University. Her educational background provided the foundation for her innovative work at the intersection of literary studies and spatial theory.
Her research centers on African American literature with a specific emphasis on black geographies and radical spatial practice in the United States. She investigates how African American literature and visual art document black spatial thought through formal experimentation. Her book project, Flight Lines: A Poetics of Black Space, examines how Black people have engaged with U.S. geographies of racial enclosure, while her second project theorizes mark-making and literacy in works by Toni Morrison and John Keene.
Dr. Kelley's publications reveal consistent engagement with spatial theory, Black literary studies, and critical geography. Her recent articles demonstrate sophisticated analysis of how Black cultural production creates alternative spatial imaginaries that challenge dominant geographic paradigms.
She serves on the editorial board of Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society and co-edits the Cambridge University Press Element Series in Urban Literary and Cultural Studies with Ato Quayson and Ankhi Mukherjee.
At Yale, Dr. Kelley teaches courses on Black Geographies, American Literature, African American Studies, and Counternarratives, which examines contemporary black historical fiction alongside its historical and archival contexts. Her teaching reflects her commitment to connecting literary analysis with spatial and historical understanding.
