Dr. Kendra R. Parker is Assistant Professor of African American Literature in the Department of Literature at Georgia Southern University. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on the Armstrong and Statesboro campuses. 

Previously, she was Assistant Professor of African American Literature,  affiliate faculty in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, and interim director of The WGS Program at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. At Hope, she taught first-year composition, African American literature, feminist theory, introduction to Women's and Gender Studies, Summer Bridge, and general education courses.

She received her Ph.D. in English (African American Literature) with a Women’s Studies certificate from Howard University in 2014 after she successfully defended her dissertation, Biting Back, Biting Black: Black Female Vampires in Literature and Film. 

Her first book, She Bites Back​, pictured below, was released in November 2018 by Lexington Press. In September 2020, She Bites Back was released as a paperback.

Dr. Parker holding two copies of her book after the paperback version (on the right) was released in September 2020.