Mary Frances Phillips, a faculty member in the Department of Africana Studies at Lehman College from 2012-2024, has written the first biography of educator, poet, activist, former political prisoner and Black Panther Party veteran Ericka Huggins. The book, Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins, is just out from NYU Press. In a moving and inspiring conversation, Dr. Phillips talks in this episode with her Lehman College colleague Olivia Moy. We wish Dr. Phillips well in her new position of Associate Professor in the Department of African American Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Olivia Loksing Moy is an associate professor of English at Lehman College, where she teaches nineteenth-century British poetry, as well as literature courses for nursing, speech pathology, and social work students. She is the author of The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry (Edinburgh University Press, 2022), co-editor of Victorian Verse: The Poetics of Everyday Life (Palgrave, 2023), and co-editor and translator of Julio y John: Selections from Imagen de John Keats (Lost and Found, 2019).She serves as Vice President of the Keats-Shelley Association of America and co-organized The Audre Lorde Great Read in 2021. She had a conversation with Julia Miele Rodas in Episode 37.
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