Meina Yates-RichardAssistant Professor of African American Studies and English

Meina Yates-Richard is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies and English at Emory University. She earned her B.A. from the University of Houston and completed her M.A. and PhD, and Doctoral Certificate in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Rice University. Professor Yates-Richard teaches courses about African American, American, and African diasporic literatures and cultures, focusing upon literary and social constructions of race and gender, as well as cultural memories of transatlantic slavery across these fields. Her research is situated at the intersections of sound, race, slavery, maternity and liberation ideologies in African American and African Diasporic literatures and cultural production. Professor Yates-Richard's work appears in American Literature, amsj: American Studies, the Journal of West Indian Literature, Feminist Review and post45: Contemporaries.