Beverly Sheftall

Spelman College

Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall is the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Comparative Women’s Studies and the Founder and Director of the Women’s Research and Resource Center at Spelman College, the oldest historically Black college or university for women in the United States which was founded in 1981. She served as President of the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) and is a member of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences. Guy-Sheftall has published numerous texts in the fields of African American and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, including the first anthology on Black women’s literature, Sturdy Black Bridges: Visions of Black Women in Literature, and several anthologies, including Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought. She also co-authored with Johnnetta Betsch Cole, GENDER TALK: THE STRUGGLE FOR WOMEN’S EQUALITY IN AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES. Third World Press will release a collection of her essays in 2023 entitled BLACK, FEMINIST, FREE.