Yogita Goyal (she/her) is Professor of African American Studies and English at UCLA and the author of two monographs: Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature (2010) and Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery (2019), winner of the René Wellek Prize from ACLA, the Perkins prize from the International Society for the Study of Narrative and Honorable Mention for the James Russell Lowell Prize from MLA. She edited a special issue of Research in African Literatures (2014), the Cambridge Companion to Transnational American Literature (2017), and the Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature (2023), and co-edited special issues of American Literary History (2022) and Representations (2023). Past President of A.S.A.P., and editor of the journal, Contemporary Literature (2015-2022), she is writing a book about the genres of anticolonial thought.