Kemeshia Randle Swanson

Kemeshia Randle Swanson , a college professor, is currently serving a joint appointment in the Departments of English and African American Studies at Mississippi State University. She previously dedicated ten years of service to the Department of English at Garner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, North Carolina. Her work focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century African American literature, southern literature, gender and sexualities studies, and hip-hop and popular culture. She has...See more

Kemeshia Randle Swanson , a college professor, is currently serving a joint appointment in the Departments of English and African American Studies at Mississippi State University. She previously dedicated ten years of service to the Department of English at Garner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, North Carolina. Her work focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century African American literature, southern literature, gender and sexualities studies, and hip-hop and popular culture. She has published in edited collections such as Words, Beats, and Life: The Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture ; Like One of the Family: Domestic Workers, Race, and In/Visibility in "The Help "; and Street Lit: Representing the Urban Landscape . She is author of Maverick Feminist: To Be Female and Black in a Country Founded upon Violence and Respectability , published by University Press of Mississippi. See less