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Melissa Strong


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Melissa Strong (she/her) is a Philadelphia-based writer and professor who studied dance for more than 10 years. She writes about dance and the arts for Broad Street Review and about film for MovieJawn. A scholar of American literature and culture, Melissa is a faculty member at Community College of Philadelphia and the author of American Lit Remixed: Music in Twenty-First-Century American Literature (Lexington Books, 2021). Learn more on her website.