KIMBERLY FAIN

Dr. Kimberly Fain, PhD, JD, dubbed the Contemporary Voice of Cultural and Literary Critique, continues to test the boundaries of what we consider politically correct. Fain's insight into cultural issues subverts the status quo thinking regarding the historical and contemporary subject matter. Oftentimes, insisting that the truth makes societies uncomfortable but more vital as a culture.

Fain is a Professor at Texas Southern University. Due to Fain’s background in literature and research as a legal intern for federal judges and a Texas state senator, Fain’s publications specialize in the sociopolitical intersection of race, gender, and class in both classic literature and pop culture.

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Fain received her undergraduate degree in English from Texas A&M, MA in English from Texas Southern University, and Doctor of Jurisprudence (JD) from Thurgood Marshall School of Law. Furthermore, Fain is a licensed attorney who was awarded two teaching and writing fellowships from the Houston Teachers Institute at the University of Houston’s Honors College (2007 & 2008). In 2012, Fain won the Rice University Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality Scholarly Award. During the same year, Buffalo Journal of Gender, Law, & Social Policy published her co-authored law article “Socio-Economic Status and Legal Factors Affecting African American Fathers” (2012). One year later, Fain received the Norman Mailer Semi-Finalist Award for her non-fiction personal narrative "Reinvention" (2013). Currently, she has two major book publications Black Hollywood  (Praeger 2015) and Colson Whitehead (Rowman & Littlefield 2015).