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Humanities Division
Assistant Professor
Faculty
Science & Justice Research Center
Humanities Building 1
441
Humanities Academic Services
PhD, Critical Theory and English, University of California, Berkeley
BS, Radio-TV-Film, University of Texas, Austin
BA, Philosophy and English, University of Texas, Austin
Racial capitalism and the environment, including how global ideas of race pattern extraction and shape ecological knowledge; counter-colonial practices of making sense with the land--with special interest in what black study makes possible; contemporary art that comes out of queer and trans practices of survival; the fringes and fissures of critical theory; experimental poetics of color, most closely, in their visionary refusal of the brutalities of coercive legibility; the afterlives of scientific racism; the disaster of border regimes and their carceral supports; those who run away from the weather; currents of collective memory held by water and seeds; and the "spore" and "scatter" carried by "diaspora."
I am supervising two undergraduate research fellowship projects--one called Some Waters of Palestine and the other, The Gardens at the End of the Plantation.
Submarines, with drawings by Josephine Baker (Munich: Nir Altman, 2022).
"October in Neukölln," in Forbidden Colors (London: Pilot Press, 2023). Proceeds continue to go to Medical Aid in Palestine.
An essay on anti-blackness and abstraction, by way of a deep read of Hortense Spiller's "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe" and Kazmir Malevich's Black Square: "The Riot of the Literal," Oxford Literary Review (2020).
Reflections on getting free from the carceral logics that are normalized by segregating the whole world into discrete species: "Abolish Species: Notes Toward an "Unfenced Is," Part I," The Yearbook of Comparative Literature (2019).
A note about the characteristic lean in Beverly Buchanan's sculptures: "The Buchanan Tilt," Archives of American Art Journal (2023)