Kenton Rambsy

Kenton Rambsy is an Assistant Professor of African American literature at the University of Texas at Arlington. Kenton is a 2018 recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship and author of two digital books #TheJayZMixtape and Lost in the City: An Exploration of Edward P. Jones's Short Fiction (2019). His forthcoming book project, The Geographies of African American Short Stories illuminates an important, though often understudied, mode of literary art by interpreting writers’ depictions of characters navigating distinct social and physical environments.

Event: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland