Dr. Jaye Austin Williams is Assistant Professor and C. Graydon and Mary E. Rogers Faculty Fellow in the Department of Critical Black Studies at Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA), where she specializes in the melding of drama, cinema, performance and　Black　Feminist　theories with Critical Black Studies. She worked for thirty years in professional theatre as a director, playwright, actor and consultant, on and off Broadway and regionally, including being director-in-residence for Onyx Theatre Company in New York City throughout the 1990s.