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Gwendolyn D. Pough
Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Dean’s Professor of the Humanities Syracuse University Syracuse, NYBio
Gwendolyn D. Pough is Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Dean’s Professor of the Humanities at Syracuse University. She is the author of Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere as well as numerous essays and articles on black feminism, hip-hop, critical pedagogy and black public culture. She has co-edited several special journal issues and the critically acclaimed Home Girls Make Some Noise: A Hip-Hop Feminism Anthology and the forthcoming in 2026 Hip Hop and Queer Black Feminism. She is the current President of the Rhetoric Society of America. And she is Past Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. She writes romance fiction under the pen name Gwyneth Bolton. She has twelve novels and a novella published to date. She has won several awards for her novels.