Eric Darnell Pritchard is an assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of the award-winning Fashioning Lives: Black Queers and the Politics of Literacy (Southern Illinois University Press, 2016) and editor of Glamourtunist.com. He is currently at work on two new book projects including a biography of 1980s fashion superstar Patrick Kelly.