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Current research expands on the dissertation, "Bad Mathematics: Black Experimental Poetry Performance 21st Century Diaspora." This project involves examining how contemporary Black cultural producers utilize analogies from math, physics, and material sciences in creative work to radically deconstruct formalizations of Blackness and categories of difference. A secondary research project is animated by Christina Sharpe's question, "What does it take to keep breath in a Black body?" This pursues an exploration of embodied movement, particularly focusing on strength-training with kettlebells. The research is motivated by questions about how artists and writers can extend the efforts of critical humanists like Sylvia Wynter and Frantz Fanon in their work, and whether interdisciplinary and un-disciplinary approaches to scholarship can change the possibilities of knowledge production. Furthermore, the research aims to investigate new shapes that Black Studies might take in response to the demands of liberation in the current moment.
Department of English - McGill University • Montreal, QC, Canada
Teaching and supervising graduate students with interests in Black feminisms, Black study, and critical humanisms.
Department: Department of Medicine. Program: Experimental Medicine.