Megan Feifer (she/her/hers) is an Assistant Professor of African American Literature and former inaugural Teacher Scholar in Residence at the bell hooks center of Berea College. She earned her B.A. and M.A. in English from the University of Wisconsin and a Ph.D. in Literary Studies with a minor in Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies from Louisiana State University. Her research and teaching interests focus on the counterarchives contemporary African American and Afro-diasporic writers produce in response to what Anne McClintock terms the “official ghosting,” or inability/unwillingness of nations to confront and account for the “past.” She is a co-editor of the edited collection bell hooks’s Radical Pedagogy: New Visions of Feminism, Justice, Love, and Resistance in the Classroom, Bloomsbury Press, and the volume Narrating, History, Home, and Diaspora: Critical Essays on Edwidge Danticat, University Press of Mississippi. She is the author of the article, The Remembering of Bones: Working Through Trauma and the Counter-Archive in Edwidge Danticat’s Farming of Bones. Feifer is a co-founding President of the Edwidge Danticat Society and co-creator of bellhooksarchive.com, a digital humanities website featuring curated items from the bell hooks papers alongside biographical, critical bibliographical, pedagogical, and interview materials.
- B.A. English and Women's and Gender Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- M.A. English (Modern Studies), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Ph.D. English with a Graduate Minor in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Louisiana State University
Megan Feifer is author of the article, The Remembering of Bones: Working Through Trauma and the Counter-Archive in Edwidge Danticat’s Farming of Bones and co-editor of bell hooks’s Radical Pedagogy: New Visions of Feminism, Justice, Love, and Resistance in the Classroom, Bloomsbury Press (2025) and Narrating, History, Home, and Dyaspora: Critical Essays on Edwidge Danticat University Press of Mississippi (2022). She also has work in the Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat (2021) and Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era (2019). She is co-founder of the Edwidge Danticat Society and co-creator of the bellhooksarchive.com. A digital repository of select artifacts from the bell hooks papers currently housed in the Special Collections and Archives of Berea College.