Qiana Whitted

Qiana Whitted is a Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of South Carolina and director of the African American Studies Program. Her research and teaching in comics studies focuses on representations of race and blackness, often through questions of genre, readership, and the intersections of culture and politics. She is author of the Eisner Award-winning book, EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest, and co-editor of the collection, Comics and the U.S. South. She is also the editor of Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society and chair of the International Comic Arts Forum.