Today’s conversation is with Meredith Gadsby, who teaches in the Department of Africana Studies at Oberlin College. Along with essays on migration, literature, and identity, she is the author of Sucking Salt: Caribbean Women Writers, Migration, and Survival (2006) and co-editor of Decolonizing the Academy: African Diaspora Studies (2003). In this conversation, we discuss the politics of Black study inside and outside the academy, the complexity of thinking diaspora, and the place of literary work in Black Studies.