ENGLISH AND MODERN LANGUAGES — COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS

Ebony O. Lumumba, PhD

Department Chair and Associate Professor of English at Jackson State University, teaching graduate courses in contemporary and African literature, with recent publications on Black women’s writing and literary legacy.

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Ebony O. Lumumba, PhD

Portrait of Dr. Ebony O. Lumumba.

Dr. Ebony O. Lumumba is Department Chair and Associate Professor of English in the Department of English and Modern Languages, part of Jackson State University’s College of Liberal Arts.

She teaches graduate courses in contemporary and African literature. Her recent scholarship examines Black women’s writing and literary legacy, including work on Margaret Walker and the Phyllis Wheatley Poetry Festival at Jackson State University.

Title
Department Chair & Associate Professor of English
Department
English and Modern Languages
College
Liberal Arts
Office
Dollye M.E. Robinson Liberal Arts Building, Office 432
Education

Degrees earned

Ph.D. — University of Mississippi — English Language and Literature
2018
M.A. — Georgia State University — English Language and Literature
2010
B.A. — Spelman College — English Language and Literature
2005
Scholarship & Teaching

Publications and courses

Recent publications

2025 · Edinburgh University Press
(co-author with Robby Luckett) “Midwife of a Movement”: Margaret Walker, Literary Foremother, and the Phyllis Wheatley Poetry Festival at Jackson State University. The Genius of Phyllis Wheatley Peters: A Poet and Her Legacies. Edinburgh UP, 2025.
2024 · Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
“Patchwork Politics: Black Women Stitching Their Own Identities in Eudora Welty’s Writing.” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024.

Courses taught

Contemporary Literature
Graduate-Level
African Literature
Graduate-Level
Department

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English, Modern Languages, and Speech Communication.
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Location
Fourth Floor
Dollye M.E. Robinson Liberal Arts Building
1400 John R. Lynch Street, Jackson, MS 39217
Department
(601) 979-2249
Fax: (601) 979-5105
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