Makeba Lavan

Makeba
Lavan is an Assistant Professor of English at Grinnell College. Her
research focuses on (African) American Studies, Afrofuturism/Speculative
Fiction and Popular Culture. Makeba’s intellectual musings have been
published in Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies and Modern Language Studies. As part of Lost and Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, she co-edited “Realizing the Dream of A Black University,” & Other Writings,
a collaborative publication of Toni Cade Bambara’s teaching materials
from CUNY and Spelman College. Her current project explores the ways in
which writers and artists of the African diaspora use speculative
fiction to imagine and thus create better futures for Black people.