Yolanda Mackey-Barkers

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University 

Twentieth century African American Literature; Black Diasporic (Transnational) History; Black Women’s Intellectual History; Print Culture; Digital Humanities; Public Humanities

Humanities 2078

yolanda.mackey@stonybrook.edu

• Biography

  biography

  Yolanda Mackey-Barkers is an Assistant Professor of African American Literature and Culture at Stony Brook University. Mackey-Barkers earned a dual-title PhD in English Literature and African American and Diaspora Studies from Pennsylvania State University. Her research and teaching focus on African American literary history, print culture, and the Harlem Renaissance. 

  She serves as a project leader of the Black Women’s Organizing Archive, a digital humanities initiative housed in the Center for Black Digital Research, and as the co-director of the Cooper-Du Bois Mentoring Program. She is the co-editor of a special issue of American Literary History commemorating the Harlem Renaissance centennial, slated for publication in fall 2025. Her work is forthcoming in ALH, Legacy, and Public Humanities. 

  Currently, she is at work on her first book project, Editing the Black Renaissance, which recovers Black women’s editorial and intellectual labor as sites of ingenuity and influence in Black radical thought and freedom movements across the twentieth-century transatlantic world.