Soyica Diggs Colbert is the Idol Family Professor of African American Studies and Performing Arts at Georgetown University. She is the author of several books, including Radical Vision; A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry (Yale 2022), and she is the co-editor with Robert Patterson and Aida Levy-Hussen of The Psychic Hold of Slavery: Legacies in American Expressive Culture (Rutgers 2016). Her research interests span the 19th-21st centuries, from Harriet Tubman to Beyoncé, and from poetics to performance. She has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support a residency at the Schomburg Center, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Stanford University, Mellon Foundation, and the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University. Colbert’s writing has been featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, Public Books, Metrograph and American Theatre. She has been interviewed on NPR and commented for The New York Times, USA Today, CNN, and the Washington Post. She is an Associate Director at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C.