Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan is Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at UMass Amherst. Her work on queerness and poetics in African Diaspora arts and literatures has appeared in GLQ, Palimpsest, Jacket2, Public Books, The Feminist Wire and others. She is the author of the short story collection, Blue Talk and Love (2015). Her current book project, The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora, examines the links between identity, queerness and subversive poetics in contemporary women’s writing of the African Diaspora.