Elleza Kelley

Elleza Kelley is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies and English. She earned her Ph.D. in English from Columbia University and her B.A. from Wesleyan University. Kelley works on African American literature, with an emphasis on black geographies and radical spatial practice in the United States. Her current book project, “Flight Lines: A Poetics of Black Space,” traces black spatial praxis through African American literature and visual art—particularly through experimentations with form, genre, and media—arguing that black geographies both demand and usher forth specific and unconventional methods and reading practices. As such, Kelley’s work is also concerned with methodology: how we read and write, how we engage with archives, and how we study literature. Kelley’s writing can be found in The New Inquiry, The Yale Review, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, ACME Journal, and elsewhere.