Soyica Colbert

'Soyica Senta Diggs After working at Dartmouth College as an assistant professor of English, she became part of the Georgetown University faculty and was eventually appointed Idol Family Professor.

She specializes in African American studies. She won the 2022 Association for Theatre in Higher Education Outstanding Book Award for her book Radical Vision, a biography of the playwright Lorraine Hansberry.

She has co-edited two volumes related to performance studies: The Psychic Hold of Slavery (2016) and Race and Performance After Repetition (2020). In 2021, she published Theory for Theatre Studies: Bodies, part of Bloomsbury's Theory for Theatre Studies textbook series.

In 2023, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellow in Theatre Arts and Performance Studies.