Ayesha Hardison

Ayesha Hardison is Associate Professor of English and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas. Her research and teaching explore questions of race, gender, genre, social politics, and historical memory. She is the author of Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature (University of Virginia Press, 2014), is co-editor with Eve Dunbar of African American Literature in Transition: 1930–1940 (Cambridge University Press, 2022), and has published several book chapters as well as articles in African American Review and Meridians. Hardison has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Schomburg Center Scholars-In-Residence Program, Black Metropolis Research Consortium, National Humanities Center Summer Residency Program, Humanities Kansas, and the Ford Foundation. She is director of the History of Black Writing (HBW) and co-editor of the multidisciplinary journal Women, Gender, and Families of Color.  She also works on the Mellon funded project Stories for All: A Digital Storytelling Project for the Twenty-First Century (https://storiesforall.ku.edu/history-black-writing-hbw) and co-directs Project on the History of Black Writing (https://hurston.ku.edu).