Allison Wiltshire is a G. Ellsworth Huggins Fellow, PhD candidate, and graduate instructor at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Wiltshire focuses her scholarship on literature of the African diaspora. Predominantly, she examines themes of race, twinship, hybridity, cosmopolitanism, and Afropolitanism in contemporary African and African American works. Wiltshire received her MA and BA from Mississippi State University and began her doctoral studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2019.