About

Therí A. Pickens, PhD

Therí A. Pickens, PhD is an award-winning scholar and poet. She specializes in interdisciplinary fields including Black Studies, Arab American Studies, Disability Studies, and American Cultural Studies. She has written two academic books: New Body Politics (Routledge 2014) and Black Madness :: Mad Blackness (Duke 2019). She has also edited three projects: a special issue of African American Review (2017), Arab American Aesthetics (Routledge 2018), and a special issue of College Language Association Journal (2021). Her poetry has been published in Diode, The Journal, Omnium Gatherum Quarterly, and Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire. She is a two-time Pushcart Prize Nominee.