Meshell Sturgis

Meshell Sturgis is a scholar, critic, and artist living south of Seattle. Her arts writing, a practice developed through a four-year residency with the Black Embodiment Studio, can be found in the studio’s annual journal A Year in Black Art, as well as with New Archives and Art Practical. She recently served as a research assistant and writer for Crosscut’s Black Arts Legacies project. Additionally, her work has appeared in Lateral, QED, The Journal for Women’s Studies in Communication, and Souls. She is a PhD Candidate and Instructor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington with a MA in Cultural Studies from the University of Washington Bothell and a BA in English and Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.