Kimberly Fain is a Houston-based attorney, historian, and professor of African American literature at Texas Southern University. Her essays and articles have been published by Ploughshares, JSTOR Daily, HuffPost, and National Book Review, and she has published three books: Colson Whitehead: The Postracial Voice of Contemporary Literature, Black Hollywood: From Butlers to Superheroes, the Changing Role of African American Men in the Movies, and African American Literature Anthology: Slavery, Liberation and Resistance. Find her on Twitter or on Instagram.