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Kimberly Nichele Brown is an associate professor of English who specializes in contemporary African American literature and culture, black feminist theory, Caribbean women's literature, black film, and American and Africana literatures. The focal threads that weave continuity into Brown's research agenda are issues regarding race and representation (i.e., black agency and self actualization, black subjectivity, the black body, as well as questions of audience and spectatorship. Her publications include Useful Anger: Confrontation and Challenge in the Teaching of Gender, Race, and Violence (in Women Faculty of Color in the White College Classroom. Peter Lang Publishing, 2002) and Of Poststructuralist Fallout, Scarification and Blood Poems: The Revolutionary Ideology behind the Poetry of Jayne Cortez(in U.S. Women Writers of Color and Literary Theory, University of Illinois Press, 1998). In her book, Writing the Revolutionary Diva: Black Women's Subjectivity and the Decolonized Text (forthcoming with Indiana University Press), Brown employs the figure of the revolutionary diva as both a moniker for women such as Toni Cade Bambara, Jayne Cortez, Angela Davis, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker, as well as a trope for revolutionary and feminist agency. Brown argues that the majority of contemporary African American women write with a revolutionary imperative to decolonize their black reading constituency