Asha Tall serves as a Lecturer in the Writing Program at Boston University’s College of Arts & Sciences. Most recently, she was Assistant Professor of Humanities at Labouré College of Healthcare in Milton, Massachusetts, teaching English literature and writing-intensive courses on U.S. civil rights to adult first-generation college students. Prior to that, Tall taught first-year writing, environmental justice, and Black literature classes at Tufts University, where she conducted doctoral research for her dissertation reconnecting the theoretical contributions of Sylvia Wynter’s early creative work to Wynter’s corpus as a whole. She has also taught literature and writing at UMass Boston.

Tall earned a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an M.A. from Tufts University, and was a Ph.D. candidate in English at Tufts University. Her research interests center on critical pedagogies, the intersections of literature and antiracist activism, and contemporary Black literature of the African diaspora. She conducts archival work on the published and unpublished writing of Black women envisioning social, political, economic, and erotic self-determination. Before returning to the academy, Tall edited and published nonfiction books with an independent movement press. Her publications include the article “Love on the Line in Merle Collins's Novel Revisioning” in the Journal of West Indian Literature (2019). She has presented scholarly work, such as “Wynter's Lyrical No(ta)tions” at the American Literature Association conference, and chaired sessions at the Northeast Modern Language Association. In 2022, Tall joined the first cohort of Boston University’s Diversity & Inclusion STARS Program.

Professional Email: atall@bu.edu