Beverly Guy-Sheftall

Beverly Guy-Sheftall is a Black feminist scholar, writer, editor, and the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies and English at Spelman College. Guy-Sheftall has published a number of texts within African American and Women’s Studies, which include the first anthology on Black women’s literature, Sturdy Black Bridges: Visions of Black Women in Literature (Doubleday, 1979), which she coedited with Roseann P. Bell and Bettye Parker Smith.