Jennifer Wilks is an associate professor of English, African & African Diaspora Studies, and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin, where she directs the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies. She is the author of Carmen in Diaspora: Adaptation, Race, and Opera’s Most Famous Character, a cultural history of Carmen adaptations set in the African diaspora, and Race, Gender, and Comparative Black Modernism: Suzanne Lacascade, Marita Bonner, Suzanne Césaire, Dorothy West, an exploration of gender and race in the Harlem Renaissance and Negritude movements. Wilks has been a visiting professor at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 and the Université Paris Nanterre, and her teaching at UT Austin has been recognized at the department, college, and university levels.
