Dr. Seth E. Davis is a scholar, artist, and beauty. Dr. Davis is currently an Assistant Professor of English and Communications at LeMoyne-Owen College in his hometown Memphis, TN. He earned his Doctorate in Composition and Cultural Rhetoric and a Certificate of Advanced Study in Women and Gender Studies from Syracuse University. He earned his bachelor's degree in Speech Communication and Theatre from Tennessee State University and his master’s degree in Communication Studies from Ball State University.  His research examines practices of reading, throwing shade, and pulling trade as "fierce literacies" of survival in the Black queer community. Dr. Davis has won three National Council of Teachers of English Lavender Rhetorics Excellence in Queer Scholarship awards and his research has been published in Salt Hill Press, Literacy in Composition Studies, and a forthcoming article in Kairos.