Bria E. Paige

Bria E. Paige is a black feminist theorist researching and teaching across her varied interests in 20th and 21st century African American and African diasporic literature and culture. Currently, an advanced Ph.D. candidate in the department of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, Bria is completing her dissertation which charts the long history of Black women's exhaustion within 20th and 21st century Black women's writing and other forms of cultural production. In addition to being the 2025-2027 Thurgood Marshall Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of African and African American Studies (AAAS) at Dartmouth College, Bria's research is supported by an American Association of University Women (AAUW) Dissertation Completion Fellowship. Bria's scholarly work can be found most recently in The Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival 50th Anniversary Special Issue of Callaloo published in Summer 2024