Joshua Bennett is an American author, professor and artist. He is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. Bennett's research and teaching interests include 20th and 21st century African American literature, animality studies, affect theory, black poetics, and environmental studies. Bennett is a Guggenheim Fellow and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, MIT, the Ford Foundation, and the Society of Fellows at Harvard University.