| Layli Phillips, Co-Editor | ||
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Layli Phillips (Ph.D., Temple University, 1994) is Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at Georgia State University, where she teaches courses in Black feminism and womanism, the African American lesbian and gay experience, the psychology of women, and feminist methodology. Her research interests include womanist/ feminist-of-color theory, the development of identities (racial/ethnic, biracial/biethnic, lesbian/gay/bisexual, spiritual/religious, and feminist), and liberation psychology. With Barbara McCaskill, Ph.D., she is the Founding Co-Director of the Womanist Studies Consortium and the Founding Co-Editor of the interdisciplinary journal Womanist Theory and Research (formerly The Womanist). She has published articles in Signs, The Journal of Black Psychology, and History of Psychology, as well as contributed essays to such volumes as Good Girls/Bad Girls: Women, Sex, Violence, and Power in the Nineties (Rutgers, 1996) and Looking Queer: Body Image and Identity in the Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Communities (Haworth, 1998). She is currently working on an edited volume of womanist scholarship. |