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Gina Dent is an associate professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She is associate dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion for the Humanities Division at UC Santa Cruz. [1] She co authored the 2022 book Abolition. Feminism. Now. with her partner, Angela Davis; Erica Meiners; and Beth Richie.
Dent received her B. A. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, [2] and her M.A.and Ph.D. in English & Comparative Literature from Columbia University. [3] [4]
Dent is currently[ when?] an associate professor of feminist studies, history of consciousness, and legal studies in the humanities division at the University of California, Santa Cruz. [5] [4] In 2019, she received a Dizikes Award for teaching. [6]
Her research interests include Africana studies, legal theory, and popular culture. [4] She is the editor of Black Popular Culture (1992). [5] This collection was named a Village Voice Best Book of the Year. [7] In 2011, Dent served in a delegation to Palestine, and she advocates for human rights in the region. [8] [9] She is sought-after internationally as a speaker and educator on Black Feminism and abolitionism. [10] [11] [12] [13]
She has two forthcoming[ when?] books, Prison as a Border and Other Essays, and Anchored to the Real: Black Literature in the Wake of Anthropology, which will be published by Duke University Press. [14] [15] [16] Dent co authored the 2022 book Abolition. Feminism. Now. with Angela Davis, Erica Meiners, and Beth Richie, which argues for a prison abolitionist vision of feminism. [17] [18] [19] [20]
As of 2020, Dent was living with her partner, feminist scholar and activist Angela Y. Davis. [21] [22] Together, they have advocated for the abolition of police and prisons, using the concept of abolition feminism. [23]
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