Vincent L. Stephens

Associate Dean, Diversity & Inclusion at College of Arts and Sciences and Lecturer at College of Fine Arts

Vincent L. Stephens is the Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion in the College of Arts & Sciences at Boston University. Stephens co-edited 2017’s Postracial America? An Interdisciplinary Study wrote 2019’s Rocking the Closet: How Little Richard, Johnnie Ray, Liberace, and Johnny Mathis Queered Pop Music, and is currently completing Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Her “Sisters”: Feminist Millennial Television and the 21st Century for Wayne State University Press. His essays have also appeared in numerous scholarly journals, edited collections, and encyclopedias. Vincent served as the President of the Pennsylvania chapter for the National Association for Multicultural Education (PA-NAME) 2020-21, and as Vice-President, Board of Directors, for the Carlisle, Pennsylvania based Leadership, Education, and Farming (LEAF) Project PA, in 2020. He completed his Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Maryland College Park and has held DEI leadership roles at Dickinson College and Bucknell University.