Kevin Morris is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he focuses on twentieth-century Black literature and questions around carcerality, antiblackness, and the limitations of liberal humanism. Kevin’s dissertation is titled “All Black Literature Is Carceral Literature: Chronotopes of Carcerality and the Black Novel,” which attends to the way Black authors comment on and represent carceral time-spaces within the novel to disrupt narratives of progress that obfuscate the relational dynamics of slavery and its carceral afterlives. He holds a BA in Philosophy and African & African American Studies from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and an MA in Pan-African Studies from Syracuse University. Kevin is a native of South Central Los Angeles (not “South LA”) but has called Harlem home for nearly a decade. He spends most of his time hanging with his dogs, Bronny and Bosch, watching sports, sneaker shopping, wandering around museums, and being an “old head” hip-hop nerd.