"African American Studies" Archive

Shanna Greene Benjamin to join WFU faculty as professor of African American Studies

Noted biographer and scholar of African American literature and Black feminist studies Shanna Greene Benjamin will join the Wake Forest University faculty as professor of African American Studies in July.

An accomplished scholar and academic leader, Benjamin comes to Wake Forest from Grinnell College where she was a professor of English and associate dean of the College. Prior to her tenure at Grinnell, Benjamin was a member of the faculty at her undergraduate alma mater, Johnson C. Smith University, where she also directed the university’s honors college. She is the recipient of a number of fellowships and awards including most recently an American Council of Learned Societies fellowship and a Howard Foundation fellowship. Her recent biography of the distinguished scholar and literary critic Nellie Y. McKay, Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay, was selected as one of the best reads of 2021 by Ms. Magazine. Read more

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