Rosamond King
Assistant Professor
English
Location: 4215 Boylan Hall
Phone: 718.951.5000 x6439
Fax: 718.951.4612
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King is a critical and creative writer and artist. Her scholarship has appeared in several journals, including Callaloo, The Journal of West Indian Literature and Women and Performance. She has work forthcoming in the collection Sexuality & Citizenship in the Caribbean. King regularly presents at conferences and has spoken about her research throughout the Americas and in Africa. She is also a poet, artist and performer. Her poetry has appeared in more than a dozen journals and anthologies, and she has performed widely at spaces such as Poets House, Dixon Place. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships, awards and creative residencies. King teaches courses in Caribbean Literature, Creative Writing, Sexuality in the African Diaspora, Performance in the African Diaspora, and Immigrant Literature.
Education:
Ph.D., New York University - 2001 (Comparative Literature)
M.A., New York University - 1998 (Comparative Literature)
B.A. (summa cum laude), Cornell University - 1996 (Literature & Linguistics)
Areas of Expertise:
King's research focuses on two areas: the analysis of sexuality in Caribbean and African literature, art and performance; and the analysis of performance in the Caribbean and Africa. She received a 2011-2012 Career Enhancement Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, which she will use to complete a manuscript entitled "Island Bodies: Transgressive Caribbean Sexualities."
Books and Publications
King, Rosamond and Angelique Nixon, co-editors and co-authors of the introduction to Theorizing Homophobias in the Caribbean: Complexities of Place, Desire, & Belonging. www.caribbeanhomophobias.org. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2012
"New Citizens, New Sexualities: 19th Century Jamettes." Sexuality & Citizenship in the Caribbean. Ed. Faith Smith. University of Virginia Press. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2011
Review of Sections of an Orange. CAISO (Coalition Advocating for Inclusion of Sexual Orientation) blog. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2009
"More Notes on the Invisibility of Caribbean Lesbians." Our Caribbean: Lesbian & Gay Writing from the Antilles. Ed. Thomas Glave. Duke University Press. Winner of the 2009 LAMBDA Award for Best Anthology. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008
"On Trying to Be a Radical Teacher." The Radical Teacher. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008
"Re/Presenting Self & Other: Trans Deliverance in Caribbean Texts." Callaloo. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008
"Sex as Rebellion: A Close Reading of Lucy and Brown Girl, Brownstones." Journal of African-American Studies. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008
"Sheep and Goats Together -- Interracial Relationships From Black Men's Perspectives." Free at Last? Black America in the Twenty-First Century. Transaction Publishers. Originally published in The Journal of African-American Studies (2004). (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006
"Dressing Down: Male Transvestism in Two Caribbean Carnivals." Sargasso. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005
Chief editor and author of introductions, Voices of the City, an urban poetry anthology. Hanging Loose Press. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2004
"Sex and Sexuality in English Caribbean Novels: A Survey from 1950." The Journal of West Indian Literature. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2002
Creative Work
"Spectacle/Spectacular" performance as part of "BODY OF WORDS: The Critical and Kinesthetic Intersection of Text and Physical Performance," curated by Belladonna. Dixon Place Theatre. 2011
"Supplicant" (performance art video), screened at Trampolim, Galeria Homero Massena, Vitória, Brazil, January. Originally performed live as part of the "Low Lives" curated online performance exhibit, Aug. 8, 2009. 2011
Featured performer, Rigidigidim De Bamba De: Ruptured Calypso (evening-length dance theater work created by Cynthia Oliver), positively reviewed in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Sold-out performances at The Painted Bride, Philadelphia, October 2009; Dansspace, New York, October 2009; The Central District Forum, Seattle; and DancePlace, Washington, D.C. 2010
Two poems, "War Diaries." 2010
Creater and performer, Still Dreaming America, a one-woman show that premeired at the Bronx Academy for Arts & Dance. 2009
One poem, Tuesday. 2009
Three poems, The Black Scholar. 2008
Two poems, Downtown Brooklyn. 2008
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Career Enhancement Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. (Grants and Fellowships) 2011
Participant, Sandarbh Residency, Partapur, Rajasthan, India. (Awards and Honors) 2010
Fulbright Scholar, Gambia (Africa). (Awards and Honors) 2006
Junior Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago Center for the Study of Race, Politics, & Culture. (Grants and Fellowships) 2005
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"How to See the Invisible: Myths & Realities of Caribbean Women Who Desire Women." Caribbean Studies Association. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
"Transforming Silence: Memory, Remembrance and Resistance in the Narratives of Caribbean Women Writers" keynote speech. First Annual Caribbean Women Writers Conference. Medgar Evers College (CUNY). Brooklyn, N.Y. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
Participant, "Building Caribbean Community: Porgrams & Institutions" roundtable. The Caribbean Epistemologies Symposium. CUNY Graduate Center. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
"In Addition to the Usual." Association of Caribbean Women Writers & Scholars Conference. Louisiana State University. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
"The Cult of True Oomanhood: Caribbean Women Sex the Bildungsroman." Part of the Distinguished Lectures in Caribbean Studies Series at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010
"'Yu Sabi Yu Papa?' or 'Who's the Father?' The Paternity of Gambian Literature." Works-in-Progress Talk. English Department, Brooklyn College. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2009
"A Lot of Order & A Little Chaos: Improvisation in Teaching & Other Performances." Faculty Day. Brooklyn College. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
"All About the International Resource Network." Caribbean Studies Association Conference. Kingston, Jamaica. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
"Can We Be Safe & Visible? Caribbean Sexuality & Homophobia" panel. The Audre Lorde Project. Brooklyn, N.Y. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009
"How Queer Is That? Querying the Intersections of Black/-/Queer Studies." Black. Queer. Diaspora. Yale University. New Haven, Conn. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009
"Nigger/Nigga: A Discussion of Language, Culture & History" panel. Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009
"The Immigrant Novel." Graduate Seminar in Pedagogy & Curriculum: Social Studies (EDUC 724.02, 23; Professor Barbara Winslow). Brooklyn College. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009
"When the Public Is the Art: Performance, Power, and African Carnival." Conference on African and Afro-Caribbean Performance. University of California - Berkeley. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
Professional Leadership
Co-chair, Caribbean Region of the International Resource Network (www.irnweb.org), 2008-present. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2012
Board member, The Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies, 2007-11. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2011
Member, LGBT Studies Task Force, to create an M.A. program at the CUNY Graduate Center. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2011
Member, Executive Board of Directors, the Organization of Women Writers of Africa, 2010-present. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2010
