Eve Dunbar (she/her) is a Professor of English whose work and teaching focus on late-19th-century and contemporary African American literature and culture, with particular emphasis on Black feminism, labor, segregation, and politics. 

Dunbar is the author of Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction: Black Women Writing Under Segregation (University of Minnesota Press 2024) and Black Regions of the Imagination: African American Writers Between the Nation and the World (Temple UP 2012). She is the co-editor of African American Literature in Transition: 1930-1940 (Cambridge UP, 2022). Dunbar's published scholarly articles and review essays appear in American Literature, African American Review, Callaloo: Art and Culture in the African Diaspora, Journal of American History, and South Atlantic Quarterly. Her more public-facing writing can be found in The Nation, Jezebel, Colorlines, and Literary Hub.

Dunbar's awards include the W.E.B. Dubois Fellow at Harvard University's Hutchins Center for African and African American Research (2020-21) and an American Council of Learned Societies Burkhardt Fellow (2016-17). Her essay “Loving Gorillas: Animality, Segregation Literature, and Liberation” was awarded the 2020 Lois D. Rubin, Jr. Prize by the Society for the Study of Southern Literature.