Kevin P. Morris II

Kevin P. Morris II is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he focuses on twentieth-century Black literature and questions around carcerality, antiblackness, and the limitations of liberal humanism. Kevin’s dissertation is titled “All Black Literature Is Carceral Literature: Chronotopes of Carcerality and the Black Novel,” which attends to the way Black authors comment on and represent carceral time-spaces within the novel to disrupt narratives of progress that obfuscate the relational dynamics of slavery and its carceral afterlives.