Khalilah T Watson

Khalilah T. Watson is an associate professor in the Department of Communications at Olive-Harvey College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago. Her Ph.D. areas of specialization are 20th-century African American fiction and literary theory and Toni Morrison. Aside from her teaching responsibilities, she serves as a Local Tenure Assistance Program (TAP) Leader for her campus and on various campus-wide committees. Also, she enjoys attending and presenting at an array of national literary conferences: the American Literature Association (ALA), the August Wilson Symposium, and the College Language Association (CLA). To this end, she has written and published a few short media articles for the University of Chicago’s Court Theater on works written by August Wilson, as well as authors like Ntozake Shange and Richard Wright. Toni Morrison is her academic and professional muse, so she is quite proud of her two scholarly publications about Morrison’s work, which can be found in the texts Critical Insights Beloved (2015) and Critical Responses about the Black Family in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child: Conflicts in Comradeship (2020). Also, she is a lifetime member and the recording secretary of the Toni Morrison Society. Other professional memberships include the College Language Association, the August Wilson Society, and the International Writing Across the Curriculum Network. Lastly, she is a guest columnist for The Final Call Newspaper. In her spare time, Khalilah likes to read, write, thrift shop, travel, and spend time with her family and friends.