Dana Williams

Teaches at 92nd Street Y

Dana Williams is Chair and Professor at Howard’s African American Literature Department of English. She was a faculty fellow at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University. Dr. Williams has written numerous works, such as Contemporary African American Female Playwrights: an Annotated Bibliography and In the Light of Likeness—Transformed: The Literary Art of Leon Forrest. She has also co-edited August Wilson and Black Aesthetics with Sandra G. Shannon. Williams has published articles in CLA Journal, African American Review, Bulletin of Bibliography, Langston Hughes Review, Zora Neale Hurston Forum and Studies in American Fiction.