Samantha Pinto
Samantha Pinto is Professor of English and affiliated faculty of African & African Diaspora Studies and the Center for Women's & Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work has been published in journals including Meridians, Signs, Palimpsest, Small Axe, Public Culture, Early American Literature, and MELUS, and she has received fellowships from the NEH and the NHC. Her third single-authored book, Inside the Body of Black Feminism (Duke UP, 2026), centers on race, embodiment, and scientific discourse in the African Diaspora. She is currently working on several book-length projects on health & leisure culture, feminist ambivalence, and divorce, and she has launched an interdisciplinary research team on mobile reproductive health with undergraduate and graduate students across campus.