Alexis J. Davis

Bio

Alexis J. Davis (she/her) is a writer, poet, and graduate student at Texas Christian University pursuing her master’s degree in English. Her research interests explore Black women’s literacies and cartographic practices through Black aesthetics and Hip-Hop rhetorical frameworks. Davis is designing a digital zine titled, Ode to FIRE!!: The Poetics of the Black Renaissance, which celebrates the cultural and artistic revivals of Black peoples, while identifying and honoring her community in this era. She is expected to present, “Blues & Maroons: Black Women’s Rhetorical Geographies,” at the Conference of Community Writing 2025 on interrogating Black women's writing practices to explore alternative ways of beings, and examine the spatial-temporal location of Davis's black body that challenges how predominantly white academic spaces are mapped and interpreted.