Leila Easa, MFA, instructor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at City College of San Francisco and PhD student in English at the University of California, Davis, researches modes by which power determines how authors tilt the practice of disclosure through writing, speech, revision, excision, and silence. Her broad areas of focus include gender and ethnicity studies, poetics, elegy, and protest in the context of contemporary American literature. In the summer of 2023, Leila was named a Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program fellow. In 2022-2023, her research was supported by the Mellon Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies (for the project “Palestinian American Women’s Poetry: Contesting and Constructing Home through Articulation and Embodiment”) and the University of California, Davis (with a Provost’s Fellowship in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences). Born to a Palestinian American father and Southern mother, Leila is interested in regional identities and the complex relationship Palestinians have to the concept of “home.” Her co-written book with Jennifer Stager, Public Feminism in Times of Crisis: From Sappho’s Fragments to Viral Hashtags, was published in August of 2022.