Bettina JuddActing Associate Professor of African American Studies

Bettina Judd received her BA in Comparative Women’s Studies and English from Spelman College and her MA and PhD in Women’s Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her book Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought (Northwestern University Press, December 2023) argues that Black women’s creative production is feminist knowledge production produced by registers of affect she calls “feelin.”

Her poems and essays have appeared in Feminist Studies, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Torch, Mythium, Meridians and other journals and anthologies. Her article, “Sapphire as Praxis: Toward a Methodology of Anger” won Feminist Studies’ 2019 Claire G. Moses Award for the Most Theoretically Innovative Article published in the journal that year. Her collection of poems titled patient. (Black Lawrence Press, 2014), which tackles the history of medical experimentation on and display of Black women, won the Black Lawrence Press Hudson Book Prize.