Maisha Wester

Maisha Wester is Associate Professor of African American Studies and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA and Global Professor and visiting lecturer at the University of Sheffield, UK. She is the author of African American Gothic: Screams from Shadowed Places (2013) and co-editor of Twenty-First Century Gothic (2019), as well as numerous articles and essays. She is also the book review editor for the international journal Gothic Studies . Her research is in black...See more

Maisha Wester is Associate Professor of African American Studies and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA and Global Professor and visiting lecturer at the University of Sheffield, UK. She is the author of African American Gothic: Screams from Shadowed Places (2013) and co-editor of Twenty-First Century Gothic (2019), as well as numerous articles and essays. She is also the book review editor for the international journal Gothic Studies . Her research is in black diasporic gothic literature and racial discourses in US horror film. See less