Dr. Ebony Lumumba is an associate professor of English at Jackson State University where she chairs the department of English and Modern Languages and teaches courses in global and American literatures. She received her Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Mississippi, a Master of Arts in English from Georgia State University, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Spelman College with a Bachelor of Arts in English. Dr. Lumumba is an active scholar with publications in peer-reviewed journals, critical anthologies, and edited collections. Her work appears in venues such as the Eudora Welty Review and Callaloo and engages themes of Black life in American literature, visual and narrative resistance, and constructions of race and representation. She has also produced scholarly work on Toni Morrison, Jesmyn Ward, and Black women’s aesthetic practices, with several forthcoming chapters in academic volumes addressing modernism, photography, and trauma studies. She is currently developing a scholarly monograph on transnational Black mothering as a form of resistance and a novel centered on African-descended water women.