Dr. Seth E. Davis is a scholar whose work engages Black queer rhetorics, literacy studies, and cultural production. He currently serves as an Assistant Professor of English and Communications at LeMoyne-Owen College in Memphis, Tennessee.

 

Dr. Davis earned his Ph.D. in Composition and Cultural Rhetoric and a Certificate of Advanced Study in Women and Gender Studies from Syracuse University. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in Speech Communication and Theatre from Tennessee State University and a master’s degree in Communication Studies from Ball State University.

 

Dr. Davis’s research theorizes practices such as reading, shade, and pulling trade as “fierce literacies” that enable survival, self-fashioning, and cultural legibility within Black queer communities. His scholarship has been recognized with three National Council of Teachers of English Lavender Rhetorics Excellence in Queer Scholarship Awards.