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Sasha Ann Panaram

Sasha Ann Panaram is an assistant professor of English at Fordham University, where she specializes in African American and Caribbean literature and culture, with a particular interest in women’s and gender studies and slavery studies. Her research has been published in the Black Scholar. Other public-facing scholarship and interviews have appeared in Black Perspectives, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Hyperallergic, the Brooklyn Rail, and Left of Black. icon

“Keep Your Own Counsel”: Talking Octavia E. Butler with Lynell George

By Sasha Ann Panaram

“She wanted people to be curious and take action in their lives. Not be sheep. To find the ways we can work together in crisis.”

The World Continues to Need Octavia E. Butler

By Sasha Ann Panaram

Pandemics, racist violence, climate change, democratic collapse: it’s finally clear that it’s Butler’s world. We’re just living in it.

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