Hortense Spillers
Hortense Spillers is an American literary critic, Black feminist scholar, and the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of a number of texts, including Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction, and Literary Tradition (Indiana University Press, 1985); Comparative American Identities: Race, Sex, and Nationality in the Modern Text (Routledge, 1991); and Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2003).