Samantha Pinto is Director of the Humanities Institute, Professor of English, and core faculty of African & African Diaspora Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Difficult Diasporas (NYU Press, 2013) and Infamous Bodies (Duke UP, 2020). She co-edited the Routledge Companion to Intersectionalities (2022) and co-edits the book series “Black Feminism on the Edge” with Jennifer C. Nash. She is finishing a book on race and scientific discourse, as well as working on books about feminist ambivalence and divorce.