Soyica Diggs Colbert

Soyica Diggs Colbert is an Associate Professor of African American Studies and Theater and Performance Studies at Georgetown University. She is the author of The African American Theatrical Body: Reception, Performance and the Stage (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and editor of the Black Performance special issue of African American Review (2012). Colbert is currently working on a second book project entitled Black Movements: Performance and Politics and an edited volume entitled Do You Want to Be Well: The Psychic Hold of Slavery. She has published articles and reviews on James Baldwin, Alice Childress, Toni Morrison, August Wilson, Lynn Nottage, Katori Hall, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Kanye West in African American Review, Theater Journal, Boundary 2, South Atlantic Quarterly, and Theater Topics and in the collections Black Performance Theory, Contemporary African American Women Playwrights, and August Wilson: Completing the Cycle.