Dagmawi Woubshet is a scholar, writer, and translator, working at the intersection of Black and LGBTQIA studies. He is the author of The Calendar of Loss: Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS; and co-editor of Ethiopia: Modern Nation, Ancient Roots and Ethiopia: Literature, Art, Culture. His critical and creative writings have appeared in various publications including Callaloo, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Souls, Transition, The Atlantic, and African Lives: An Anthology. He is currently completing a scholarly monograph on James Baldwin’s late style, a book of lyric essays, and the first English translation of Sebhat Gebre Egziabher’s 1966 Amharic novel, ሰባተኛው መላክ Säbatägnaw Mälak [The Seventh Angel]. 

Woubshet was an associate editor of Callaloo and has served on the Editorial Board of Transition. He is the recipient of fellowships from Civitella Ranieri (Italy), the Africa Institute in Sharjah (UAE), and the Modern Art Museum in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), where he curated Julie Mehretu: The Addis Show. Before joining the University of Pennsylvania in 2017, Woubshet was a faculty member of the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University. He received his Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization from Harvard University and his B.A. in Political Science and History from Duke University.