Kevin Quashie

Kevin Quashie teaches Black cultural and literary studies and is a professor in the department of English at Brown University. Primarily, he focuses on Black feminism, queer studies, and aesthetics, especially poetics. He is the author or editor of four books, most recently Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being (2021), winner of the 2022 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism, and The Sovereignty of Quiet: Beyond Resistance in Black Culture (2012). Among his honors are a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2015) and a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2004), as well as citations for teaching excellence from Brown University and Smith College.