Fall 2021 seminar: Ph.D. candidate, english language and literatures
Jehan L. Roberson is a queer writer, scholar, artist, and memory worker using text as the basis for her interdisciplinary practice. Born and raised in Memphis, TN, Jehan's work explores text as a site of liberation, place making, and historical intervention for Black peoples in the Americas. Her writing has been published in Public Books, Women & Performance, Apogee, ZORA, VICE, and Autostraddle, among other publications. She is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University.