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BioAria S. Halliday, Ph.D. holds the Marie Rich Endowed Professorship and is Associate Professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and in African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Halliday is known for her research on the cultural constructions of black girlhood and womanhood in material, visual, and digital culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. She engages broad interdisciplinary interests in Black feminism, art, and performance in Black popular culture in the United States and the Caribbean. Her research is featured in Cultural Studies, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, Girlhood Studies, Palimpsest, and SOULS. Her article, “Twerk Sumn!: Theorizing Black Girl Epistemology in the Body” won the 2021 Stuart Hall Foundation x Cultural Studies Award. Her latest book is Black Girls and How We Fail Them published by @UNCPress.

Ep. 58 DuEwa interviewed author and lawyer, Courtney Duke Foster about her novel. Visit www.courtneydukefoster.com for more information.

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Courtney is a lawyer who was bitten by the writer bug almost a decade ago. She has written dozens of poems and short stories. Her short stories have been published in the Bay to Ocean Journal and The Fire Inside, Vol. III. In 2022, Courtney published her debut novel, PASSING NOTES. She published the follow-up novel, RESULTS WILL VARY, in 2024.

A graduate of Spelman College and Duke University School of Law, Courtney grew up in Maryland, where she lives with her two awesome daughters. In her spare time, she enjoys writing stories, of course, but also watching movies and attending musicals and comedy shows. She adores the art of storytelling in all forms. She loves writing stories that show the good, the bad, and the wondrous aspects of life and love with characters you wish you could hang out with.

Ep. 57 DuEwa interviewed award winning and New York Times bestselling author Victoria Christopher Murray about her latest book Harlem Rhapsody. Visit www.victoriachristophermurray.com. Follow in Instagram @nerdacityarts

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Victoria Christopher Murray is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 30 novels. Her novels, The Personal Librarian and The First Ladies, which she co-authored with Marie Benedict were both Instant New York Times bestsellers and her novel, Stand Your Ground won an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction. Four of her novels, Lust, Envy, Wrath and Greed have been made into TV movies for Lifetime. Visit her at www.victoriachristophermurray.com.