Ph.D. in American Literature with Graduate Certificates in Women’s Studies & in Social Theory – University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

Master of Arts in English – Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

Bachelor of Arts in English – Florida International University, Miami, FL

Dr. Conger is an associate professor of English, the former Director of English Graduate Studies (2017-2024), and the co-founder and former Co-Coordinator (2009-2013) of the Women & Gender Studies [now Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies] Program at Morgan State University. She is editor of and contributor to a collection of critical essays entitled Passing Interest: Racial Passing in U. S. Novels, Memoirs, Television, and Film, 1990-2010 (SUNY P, 2014), and the editor of and contributor to a special issue entitled “Leaping into the Fire: Representations of Women in U. S. Race Riots,” of the journal SLI: Studies in the Literary Imagination. Her essays have appeared in American Literature, African American Review, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, and LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory. Her current research project focuses on 20^th century feminist utopias in the United States. She has a forthcoming article in Utopian Studies.

Areas of Specialization: 19th & 20th Century American Literature & Culture; Critical Race Theory; African American Literature & Culture; Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies; Feminist Utopia 

Teaching Areas: American Literature; African American Literature; Women's Literature; Feminist Theories; Utopias & Dystopias, Graduate Professional Development