Sheena C Howard

Sheena C. Howard, PhD, is an associate professor of communication and an award-winning author, filmmaker, and scholar. In 2014, Sheena won an Eisner Award for her first book, Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation. She is the first Black woman to receive this honor. She is also the author of several critically acclaimed books and comic books on a range of topics. Sheena is a writer and image activist, with a passion for telling stories, through various mediums, that encourage...See more

Sheena C. Howard, PhD, is an associate professor of communication and an award-winning author, filmmaker, and scholar. In 2014, Sheena won an Eisner Award for her first book, Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation. She is the first Black woman to receive this honor. She is also the author of several critically acclaimed books and comic books on a range of topics. Sheena is a writer and image activist, with a passion for telling stories, through various mediums, that encourage audiences to consider narratives that are different than their own. In 2014, Sheena published Black Queer Identity Matrix and Critical Articulations of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation. Sheena is also the author/editor of the award-winning book Encyclopedia of Black Comics and cowriter of the comic book Superb, about a teenage superhero with Down syndrome. In 2016, through her company Nerdworks, LLC, Sheena directed, produced, and wrote the documentary Remixing Colorblind, which explores the ways the educational system shapes our perception of race and others. See less