Kemeshia Randle Swanson is associate professor of English at Garner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, North Carolina. Her work focuses on American literature, African American literature, Black feminisms, and popular literature and culture. She has published in edited collections such as Words, Beats, and Life: The Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture; Like One of the Family: Domestic Workers, Race, and In/Visibility in “The Help”; and Street Lit: Representing the Urban Landscape. She is author of Maverick Feminist: To Be Female and Black in a Country Founded upon Violence and Respectability, published by University Press of Mississippi.
