Elizabeth “Lisa” Abena Osei focuses on Postcolonial Studies and African Literature, and specifically on Black Speculative Fiction at the University of Maryland, College Park. Lisa Abena Osei holds an MA in Comparative English Studies, Literature and American Culture from Heinrich-Heine Universität, Düsseldorf, and an MPhil in English Literature from the University of Ghana. She has published peer-reviewed articles on Black speculative fiction, specifically Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism, in The Journal of African Literature Association (JALA), Critical Studies in Media and Communication journal and the Global Africa Sciences. She is also the winner of the Best Graduate Student Essay Award at the 2022 African Literature Association Conference. She is also an MLA Edward Giuliano Global Fellow 2024 awardee. Overall, she is interested in the ways Postcolonial African literatures can be used in transformative ways to explore and challenge the complexities of race, identity, and power.