Bio

Dr. LaMonda Stallings

L.H. Stallings is Chair and Professor of Black Studies at Georgetown University. She is the author of The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins: A Black Woman Filmmaker’s Search for New Life (Indiana UP, 2021): A Dirty South Manifesto: Sexual Resistance and Imagination in the New South (University of California Press, 2020); Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2015); Mutha’ is Half a Word!: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture (Ohio State Univ. Press, 2007).