Dr. Shamika Ann Mitchell is English faculty at Rockland Community College, State University of New York. Her interests are Hip Hop, American literature, comics, popular culture, ethnicity, identity, and subjectivity. Her writing has been published in various texts, including Gloria Naylor’s Fiction, Encyclopedia of Black Comics, Icons of Hip Hop, and Women on Women: Indian Women Writers’ Perspectives on Women. She is a member of Women in Comics NYC Collective International and is a contributor in the forthcoming Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics.