Biography

Jennifer D. Williams is an Associate Professor of English at Howard University in Washington, DC. Her research and teaching interests include twentieth and twenty-first century African American literature and women's, gender, and sexuality studies. Dr. Williams is completing a book on Black women’s literature and urban segregation. You can find her other publications in A/B: Autobiography Studies, The Black Scholar, Meridians, and Contemporary Women's Writing, among other places.

Dr. Williams teaches Intro to Black LGBTQ+ Studies, Black Women's Literature and the Politics of Adaptation, and featured author courses on Colson Whitehead and N.K. Jemison, among other courses. She is also the advisor for HU's Black Feminist Book Club.