Melva Tiara Coles

Mel. Coles is a M.A. student in the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland-College Park, where she also received her B.A. in Sociology in 2016. Mel. identifies as an interdisciplinary scholar whose research includes the fields of Women’s Studies, Gender and Queer Studies, English and Sociology. Her current research Black Feminist Speculative Poetics as a methodology for engaging feminist theoretical interventions into the psychoanalytical, historical and visceral peculiarities of Black female/femme/feminine experiences of liminality and fugitivity. Mel. works at UMD Memorial Chapel and lives in College Park, Maryland with several plant babies and three feline fur babies: Emerald, Isis, and Galadriel. Mel. identifies as a Queer Black Womyn whose pronouns are She/Her/Hers.