An interdisciplinary humanist and multi-genre writer, Shana L. Redmond (she/her) thinks and creates at the intersection of music, identity, and power. Dr. Redmond is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Center for the Study of Ethnicity & Race at Columbia University in New York City.

As a fellow, Dr. Redmond’s book-length project, tentatively titled Dark Prelude: Black Life Before Mourning, provides a speculative account of Black listening before state violence in order to seize upon the densities of Black creation and living.