Aiesha Turman is an adjunct in the English Department at Hunter College. Her courses taught include ENG 120, and ENG 320 -- Multi-Ethnic American Literature and Black Speculative Fiction. She completed her PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies at Union Institute & University, where she also received certificates in Creative Writing and Women’s and Gender Studies. Her dissertation, There’s Always Been an Afrofuture: Black Women’s Literature as Technology of Protest explores Afrofuturism’s Black feminist literary lineage beginning with the mid-19th century to the present.