Dr. Janell Hobson is a scholar, writer, educator, and critic. Currently, she is Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany State University of New York.Hobson writes regularly for Ms. Magazine. Her first book, "enus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture," was published in 2005. Her second book, "Body as Evidence: Mediating Race, Globalizing Gender," was published in 2012. Her third book, "When God Lost Her Tongue: Historical Consciousness and the Black Feminist Imagination," was published in 2021. She has edited two collections of essays. She is the editor Routlege's series "Subversive Histories, Feminist Futures."