Kimberly Fain is a Visiting Professor at Texas Southern University and a licensed attorney. Fain holds a JD from Thurgood Marshall School of Law, an MA from Texas Southern University, and a BA degree from Texas A&M University at College Station. Currently, she’s a Technical Communication and Rhetoric Doctoral student at Texas Tech University. Her research focuses on African American literature, studies and rhetoric, feminist studies, media studies, social justice, visual rhetoric, composition, and technical writing. Fain has received writing and teaching awards from organizations and universities, namely TSU’s COLABS English Outstanding Visiting Professor Award, TSU’s COLABS English Outstanding Alumni Award, TTU’s Helen DeVitt Jones Graduate Fellowship, James Weldon Johnson Fellowship, Elizabeth Brown-Guillory/Rice University Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality Scholarly Award, and HTI Writing Fellowship: Houston Teachers Institute at University of Houston’s Honor College. Her publications include books, book reviews, essays, and chapters in various journals and presses, such as Buffalo Journal of Gender, JSTOR Daily, Law & Social Policy, McFarland, Modern Fiction Studies, National Book Review, Peter Lang, Ploughshares, Scarecrow, and Southern Studies. Lastly, Fain is the Associate Editor of World Literary Review and has published two books: Black Hollywood: From Butlers to Superheroes, the Changing Role of African American Men in the Movies (Praeger, 2015), and Colson Whitehead: The Post-racial Voice of Contemporary Literature (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).