Karima K. Jeffrey-Legette (NHC Fellow, 2022–23; 2023–24)
Project Title, 2023–24
Black Girls Write the Future: A Scholarly Investigation of Speculative Fiction by or about Women and Girls of African Descent
Hampton University
Project Title, 2022–23
Black Girls Write the Future: A Scholarly Investigation of Speculative Fiction by or about Women and Girls of African-Descent
Hampton University
Return to All Fellows
Fellowship Work Summary, 2023–24
Karima K. Jeffrey-Legette drafted several chapters for her Black Girls Write/Right the Future manuscript while also developing a website of the same name. She revised, proofread, and indexed her book Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls: Watch It! (Lexington Books, January 2023). A book chapter was completed, entitled “‘Gathering the Pieces’ of Our Past: How a Literal and Figurative Connection with the Caribbean Can Not Only Inform but Infuse One’s Global-African Identity,” which is to be included in Carmen Gillespie: The Catch of Breath edited by Daryl Lynn Dance (Bucknell University Press, TBD). She also began work towards “‘Sisterhoods’/‘Sisterships’ in the Worlds of Black SF—Unique, Endearing, and Powerful Bonds Amongst Women,” which was solicited by Imani M. Cheers, who is editing a collection titled Sacred Sisterhoods: A Celebration of Black Women’s Friendships on TV and Film 1993–2023 (The Ohio State University Press, in progress).