Professor
Juda Bennett received degrees in Creative Writing at Binghamton University and a Ph.D. in American Literature from Washington University in St. Louis. He teaches courses in Queer Literature and Theory, African American Literature, and Transgender Theory. He is the author of Toni Morrison and the Queer Pleasure of Ghosts (SUNY, 2014) and The Passing Figure: Racial Confusion in Modern American Literature (Peter Lang, 1998). His scholarly essays on race and sexuality have appeared in The African American Review, Biography, ImageText, and other journals, and his creative work has appeared in Laurel Review, Quarterly West, Wisconsin Review, and other literary journals.