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Jehan Roberson is a queer writer, scholar, artist, and memory worker using text as the basis for her interdisciplinary practice.

She collaborates with literature, archives, maps, artists of all disciplines, and family members to explore textual methods of place-making and self-liberation for Black people in the Americas. Her art and research have informed her previous work in archives and cultural sites such as the National Civil Rights Museum and the Center for Southern Folklore in Memphis, Kismet Productions in Chicago, and the Borges Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her writing has been published or is forthcoming in Criticism, Public Books, Women & Performance, Apogee, ZORA, emisférica, Autostraddle, and in the forthcoming volume Grabbing Tea: Queer Conversations on Archives and Practice (Litwin Press 2024), among others.

Jehan is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University. She holds an MA from NYU's John W. Draper School of Humanities and Social Thought, and a BA in English Literature with a double minor in Spanish and Journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia.