Bria E. Paige

Bria E. Paige is a black feminist theorist researching and teaching across her varied interests in 20th and 21st century African American and African diasporic literature and culture. Bria received her Ph.D. in Literatures in English from Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Currently the Thurgood Marshall Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of African and African American Studies at Dartmouth College, Bria is at work on her first book, tentatively titled The Age of Exhaustion: Bodies, Being, and Black Women's Labor. The project charts the long history of Black women's exhaustion within 20th and 21st century Black women's writing and other forms of cultural production. Bria's scholarly work can be found in The Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival 50th Anniversary Special Issue of Callaloo. She is a proud alumna of Spelman College, a historically black women's college in Atlanta, Georgia, and a native of Jackson, Mississippi.