Candice Lyons is an Assistant Professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa

Barbara, where she previously served as a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in History and Black

Studies Dissertation Scholar. Her work can be found on the public history site Not Even Past as

well as the 2022 E3W Review of Books, for which she served as co-editor. Lyons’ 2021 Feminist

Studies article “Behind the Scenes: Elizabeth Keckley, Slave Narratives, and the Queer

Complexities of Space” is the winner of the 2020 Feminist Studies Graduate Student Award. She

is currently completing her first monograph, which stages queer investigations into the types of

stories it becomes possible to tell when the archive is approached without the base assumption of

cisheteronormativity.