Susana Morris

Susana M. Morris is a Black feminist scholar and a cultural critic. She is an associate professor of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech and the co-founder of The Crunk Feminist Collective. A former Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University and Norman Freeling Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan, she is the author of Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler. Her other works include Close Kin and Distant Relatives: The Paradox of Respectability in Black Women’s Literature, the co-edited collection The Crunk Feminist Collection, and the co-authored young adult handbook Feminist AF: The Guide to Crushing Girlhood. Her writing has appeared in journals such as The Black Scholar, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, and Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, and she has been featured in venues such as NPR, the BBC, the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, and Essence. She is currently at work on several projects, including a co-edited companion to Octavia E. Butler, a monograph on the enduring significance of the Black vampire in literature and popular culture, and a literary history of Black autodidacts.