Sheila Smith McKoy
North Carolina State University
Jennifer Griffiths
New York Institute of Technology
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Author Biography
Jennifer Griffiths, New York Institute of Technology
Jennifer Griffiths is an Associate Professor of English at the New York Institute of Technology’s Manhattan campus and the author of Traumatic Possessions: The Body and Memory in African American Women’s Writing and Performance (U of Virginia P 2009). She is currently working on two book projects: an interdisciplinary edited collection on violence and black youth contemporary culture and a monograph on representations of adolescent risk and resilience in post-Civil Rights era African American writing.
