Shauna M. Morgan, Ph.D.

Shauna M. Morgan, Ph.D.

She/Her/Hers

Associate Professor of Creative Writing & Africana Literature and Director of Equity and Inclusion Initiatives in Teaching and Learning, University of Kentucky

An inclusive leader in the field of creative writing and DEI committed to elevating the stories of Black women and femmes across the diaspora.

Author of the chapbook Fear of Dogs & Other Animals (Central Square Press), Dr. Shauna M. Morgan is a poet-scholar and Associate Professor of creative writing and Africana literature at the University of Kentucky. She also served on the faculty of Howard University for nearly a decade. Her poetry is rooted in the ecosystems of Black life, and her scholarship examines the continuum of decoloniality and possibility in global Black art and culture. Shauna’s critical work has been published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing, South Atlantic Review, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, ariel: A Review of International English Literature, and elsewhere. Her poetry has appeared in A Gathering Together, Interviewing the Caribbean, A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, among other periodicals and anthologies. Shauna serves as the Director of Equity and Inclusion Initiatives at UK’s Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching, and she is Editor of the international College Language Association Journal. Shauna tends to a hopeful home garden at the Artists’ Village in the historic East End of Lexington, KY.