Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts
School of the Art Inst. of Chicago
Biographical Sketch: Kirin Wachter-Grene (she/her) is Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an emphasis on African American literature and gender and sexuality studies. Dr. Wachter-Grene is the guest-editor of At the Limits of Desire: Black Radical Pleasure, a special issue of The Black Scholar published in honor of the journal’s Fiftieth Anniversary (2020) and she sits on the journal’s Active Editorial Board. Her academic writing is published in African American Review, The Black Scholar, Callaloo, Feminist Formations, and Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers and is included in various edited collections.