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Rosamond King
Associate Professor
English
Location: 4215 Boylan Hall
Phone: 718.951.5000 x3657
Fax: 718.951.4612
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King is a critical and creative writer and artist. Her book Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination won the 2015 Caribbean Studies Association Gordon K and Sybil Lewis Prize for the best Caribbean Studies Book. Her scholarship has also appeared in many journals including Callaloo, The Journal of West Indian Literature, and Women and Performance. King regularly presents at conferences and has spoken about her research around the world. Her poetry appears in the Lambda Award-winning collection Rock | Salt | Stone, and more than three dozen journals and anthologies. She has performed widely at spaces such as Poets House, the African Performance Art Biennale and the Encuentro Performance Festival. She is also the recipient of numerous fellowships, awards and creative residencies, and teaches courses in Caribbean and African literature, creative writing, sexuality, performance, 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 the analysis of sexuality and performance in Caribbean and African literature, art and performance. She is also a widely published poet as well as a performance and book artist whose work has been presented and exhibited around the world, most recently at Dixon Place, the Encuentro Festival, the African Performance Art Biennale, the Print Center gallery and the award-winning Kindergarde: Experimental Poetry for Children.
Books and Publications
"Shadow Poems," Spellbound: The Art of Teaching Poetry (Teachers & Writers) (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2019
"Calling & Responding: Rosamond S. King & Gabrielle Civil," Claremont Colleges, CA 2019
Migration, Mobility, and Sustainability: Caribbean Studies and Digital Humanities Advanced Institute, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, at the Univ. of Florida (Grants and Fellowships) 2019
"5 Minutes for Immigrant Students," A Conversation about Intersectionality on National Coming Out Day (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
Board of Directors, Women's Studies Quarterly journal, 2016-2019. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2019
Creative Writing Workshop, Wooster College 2018
"How to Witness Your Own Work: Developing a Reading or Performance Style," Fire & Ink IV: Witness, Detroit 2015
Building a Museum Creative Incubator Workshop, the Building Museums Symposium, Brooklyn 2019
"Charl Landvreugd," Queer Caribbean Visualities 2 (exhibition catalogue) (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2018
"A Statement on Caribbean Digital Literature," sx salon 25 (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2017
"Behind the Orange Door" (with Gabrielle Civil) in special issue on Art as Caribbean Feminist Practice, Small Axe (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2017
"Black Girl Vignette," Medium (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2017
"One Sustained Moment: The Constant Re-creation of Caribbean Sexualities," Small Axe 21.1-52 (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2017
Interview by Anton Nimblett, Mosaic (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2017
Rock | Salt | Stone (Nightboat Books), poetry collection (Books and Publications: Book) 2017
"The International Resource Network: A hard won success, an uncertain future," Women's Studies Quarterly: Queer Methods (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2016
"Theater 101" selected by Alison Kinney, Paris Review (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2016
"Tiny Winey," Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2016
Chief Co-Editor, Love | Hope | Community: Sexualities and Social Justice in the Caribbean, a special issue of Sargasso journal (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2016
Review of Coloniality of Diasporas: Rethinking Intra-Colonial Migrations in a Pan-Caribbean Context by Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, for The Hispanic Review (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2016
Rihanna, entry, The Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography (Oxford UP) (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2016
"Assemblage, Rasanblaj: The making of Sable International," e-misférica 12.1 (2015: http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/emisferica-121-caribbean-rasanblaj/king) (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2015
"African Women, Literature, Language, and Culture/ Mujeres africanas, literatura, lengua y cultura." index.comunicación (Número monográfico de la Cátedra Unesco de Investigación en Comunicación y África) 4.2. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2014
Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination. University Press of Florida. (Books and Publications: Book) 2014
Interview by Kofi Campbell, The Queer Caribbean Speaks (Palgrave). (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2014
King, Rosamond and Angelique Nixon. "Embodied Theories: Local Knowledge(s), Community Organizing, and Feminist Methodologies in Caribbean Sexuality Studies." Caribbean Review of Gender Studies. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2014
"They Ask, Should We Tell? Thoughts on Disclosure in the Classroom." Thought & Action (the journal of the National Education Association). Available at http://www.nea.org/thoughtandaction. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2013
"Trans in Guyana: Recognized but Not Protected." The Huffington Post. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2013
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
"Writing + Performativity," California Institute for the Arts (CalArts) 2019
Featured Reader, 1122 Gallery, Portland, OR 2019
INCITE! Reading, Literary Arts, Portland, OR 2019
Poetry Publication, Daughters of Africa, ed. Margaret Busby 2019
"Poetry Is Not a Luxury," University of Illinois, Chicago 2018
"Readings, Rum, & Reasoning: The Diaspora Writes Back," Brooklyn Book Festival 2018
Akilah Oliver Memorial Reader, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn 2018
Featured Reader with Forrest Gander, St. Mark's Poetry Project, NYC 2018
Featured Reader, John Oliver Killens Reading Series, National Black Writers Conference, Center for Black Literature, Brooklyn (aired on C-Span) 2018
Featured reader, Sinister Wisdom: Black Lesbians - We Are the Revolution! Launch, Leslie-Lohmann Museum 2018
Featured reader, Spoonbill & Sugar Town Booksellers, Brooklyn 2018
Featured Reader, Women Writers in Bloom Salon, NYC 2018
Lambda Literary Finalist Reading, Free Library, Philadelphia 2018
Lambda Literary Finalist Reading, Leslie -Lohmann Museum, NYC 2018
Nightboat Reader, New York Art Book Fair 2018
Performance Publication, Bathhouse 2018
Poetry Publication, Jacket2 2018
Poetry Publication, Sinister Wisdom 2018
Reader, the first Cape Town Queer Feminist Film Festival, Khayelitsha, South Africa 2018
Resident Alien, evening-length Verse Cabaret performance, Wooster College (OH) April 2018; Denison Univ. (OH) 2018
"Sea Garden" chosen as Poem of the Day by the Academy of American Poets 2017
"Tiny Winey," Dixon Place 2017
Dancer #3,"She's Gotta Have It," Dir. Spike Lee, Filmed 2016, Netflix 2017 2017
Featured Performer, "Girls Will Be Girls" photo essay by Domenica Bucalo, Vogue Italia 2017
Featured Reader, Mboka Literary Festival, The Gambia 2017
Featured Reader, Nightboat + Belladonna*, DC Arts 2017
Poem in Feminist Studies Journal 2017
Poetry Publication, Aster(ix) (print, special issue on translation) 2017
Reader, the first Cape Town Queer Feminist Film Festival, Khayelitsha, South Africa 2017
Three poems in Aster(ix) 2017
Three poems in The Feminist Wire 2017
Artist Participant, Alice Yard Habitat Residency, Trinidad & Tobago 2016
Artist Participant, Creative Capital Summer Intensive, Brooklyn 2016
Featured Choreographer/Performer, "#SAYHERNAME" (work in progress) in Movement Research at Judson Church 2016
Featured Reader, "Firespitter: A Tribute to Jayne Cortez," Poets House, NYC 2016
Featured Reader, Turnstyle Reading, CUNY Graduate Center 2016
One poem, The North American Review 2016
Shortlist, Small Axe Literary Competition 2016
"The Poetry Dr.," the PIMA Symposium (Performance & Inter-Media Arts), 14 February 2015; the Brooklyn Book Festival, 13 September 2009 & Center for Book Arts, NYC 2015
"On Paper," (work in progress) performance art, Dixon Place (sold out), NYC 2015
"Studio Tour with Rosamond S. King," Impractical Labor in Service of the Speculative Arts (http://impractical-labor.org/markdown/studio-tours/rsk/index.html) 2015
"On Paper," (work in progress) 45-minute work of performance art, Dixon Place (sold out), NYC 2015
Featured Poetry Reader, Numbi Film & Arts International Festival, Rich Mix, London 2015
Featured Performer, MetLiveArts MetFridays Poetry, Metropolitan Museum of Art (standing room only), NYC 2015
Poem in The Cortland Review (http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/68/king.php) 2015
"Leave It Behind" (premiere) and "Tiny Winey" (work in progress). Call & Response: Black Women & Performance. Antioch College. Yellow Springs, Ohio. 2014
"Sable Internationale." Encuentro 2014 Performance Festival: MANIFEST, presented by the Hemispheric Institute for Performance & Politics. Montreal. 2014
Chapbook Festival Citywide Fellows Reading, CUNY Graduate Center. New York. 2014
Poem, The Wide Shore (http://thewideshore.org/?page_id=347). 2014
Poem, Transition, "I Can't Breathe" special issue (http://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/rosamond-s-king-cant-breathe). 2014
Still image from "First Ladies" in For Whom It Stands, TOO, Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African-American Art, Baltimore, 2014
"First Ladies," original performance art commissioned by AfiriPERFOMA, the African Performance Art Biennal, Harare, Zimbabwe. 2013
King, Rosamond and Gabrielle Civil. "'Sucking Teeth:' Caribbean Performance Stylings." Celebrating African American Literature: US & Caribbean Poetry. Penn State. 2013
Poems included in Kindergarde: Experimental Poems for Children; winner of the 2014 Lion & Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry. 2013
Poetry reading, Calypso Muse/Glitter Pomegranate, Brooklyn, N.Y. 2013
Poetry reading, The Rainbow Book Fair, New York. 2013
"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
Poetry reading with Jayne Cortez, "A Gathering of the Tribes," New York. 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
Poetry reading, The Rainbow Book Fair, New York. 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
Brooklyn College Mellon Transfer Student Research Program (Grants and Fellowships) 2018
Brooklyn College Scholar "Incentive" Award (Awards and Honors) 2018
CUNY Book Completion Fund (Grants and Fellowships) 2018
Finalist, Lambda Literary Award (Awards and Honors) 2018
Face-Out: Maximizing the Visibility of Emerging Writers Grant, The Council of Literary Magazines & Presses (Grants and Fellowships) 2016
Scholar & Artist-in-Residence, Alice Yard, Trinidad & Tobago (Awards and Honors) 2016
Caribbean Studies Association Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Annual Prize for the best Caribbean Studies Book (Awards and Honors) 2015
Leonard & Claire Tow Faculty Travel Fellowship (Grants and Fellowships) 2015
Brooklyn College 2014 School of Humanities & Social Sciences Mini-Grant, to support copyediting and proofreading of Island Bodies. (Grants and Fellowships) 2014
Franklin Furnace Fund Award, to create a major new work of performance art in New York City. (Grants and Fellowships) 2014
Brooklyn College Dean's Curriculum Initiative Grant, to create the course "Caribbean Carnival: History, Performance, Revolution." (Grants and Fellowships) 2013
Emerging Poets Fellowship, Poets House. (Grants and Fellowships) 2013
King, Rosamond, Tamara Mose-Brown and Jennifer Adams. CUNY Diversity Grant, to produce Brooklyn College's first conference on Caribbean studies. (Grants and Fellowships) 2013
William Stewart Travel Award (CUNY). (Grants and Fellowships) 2013
Career Enhancement Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. (Grants and Fellowships) 2011
CUNY Diversity Grant, to create a digital archive of the Jamaica Gay Freedom Movement (www.dloc.com/icirngfm). (Grants and Fellowships) 2011
New York State Council for the Humanities Planning Grant, to support additional fundraising for Yari Yari Ntoaso: Continuing the Dialogue. (Grants and Fellowships) 2011
Participant, Sandarbh Residency, Partapur, Rajasthan, India. (Awards and Honors) 2010
Brooklyn College New Faculty Fund Award. (Grants and Fellowships) 2009
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
Geraldine R. Dodge Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience, Rutgers University, Newark, N.J. As part of this fellowship, I conceived of and directed "Newark Reads Du Bois" and "Newark Reads Poetry," Newark's first-ever city-wide reading programs, which served more than 13,000 people. 2002-04. (Grants and Fellowships) 2004
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"Challenging Invisibility through Palpable Aesthetics: Caribbean Feminist Aesthetics and Resistance" Roundtable, National Women's Studies Association Conference, Atlanta (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018
"Considering Early Caribbean 'Queerness:' Constructions of gender, sexuality, and family in 19th century Trinidad," Northwestern University, African Gender and Expressive Arts Working Group Speaker Series (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
"Passwords: A Tribute to Pauli Murray with Mahogany L. Browne, Rosamond S. King & t'ai freedom ford," Poets House (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
"Queer Trouble in Caribbean Art & Activism," New York University (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
"Sorry I Missed Your Show," with Candace Thompson-Zachery, Gibney, NYC, capacity audience; the series' largest to date (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
"Unfit: So-Called Deviant Black Performance in the United States, South Africa, and the Caribbean," American Studies Association Conference, Atlanta (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018
Facilitator/Presenter, "All about the Scholarship Statement" and "All about Outside Reviewers," PhD Professional Development Conference, SSRC-Mellon Mays Graduate Initiatives Program (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
Interviewed Guest, "The Brooklyn Conversation," aired 15 April 2018, https://radiofreebrooklyn.com/show/the-brooklyn-conversation/
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
Moderator, "Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work; A conversation with Edwidge Danticat and Madeleine Thiem," Brooklyn College (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018
Participant, Tepoztlán Insitute, Black Lives/Black Deaths: Disposession, Disappearance, and Enclosure/Vidas Negras y Muertes Negras: Dispojo, Desaparicion y Cercamiento (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018
Plenary Speaker, "Sexual Violence and Racialized Bodies: Re/Centering Creative Practices of Representation and Resistance," "Race, Sex, Power" conference, Chicago (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
Plenary Speaker, "Sexual Violence and Racialized Bodies: Re/Centering Creative Practices of Representation and Resistance," "Race, Sex, Power" conference, Chicago (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
Radical Transnationalism Feminism Roundtable, National Women's Studies Association Conference, Atlanta (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018
"American Immigration and Food Policy: Past, Present, and Future," Museum of Food and Drink, Brooklyn (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
"Beyond the Spoken Word: Black Poets in and on Performance," Associated Writing Programs Conference (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2017
"Gender and Nationalism in Gambian Literature" at "Questioning the Logic of the System: A Critical Look at Southern Perspectives," De Montfort University, Brikama, The Gambia (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
"International Partnerships, Digital Archives, Collaborative Teaching: Lessons Learned," as part of the "Collaborating Across the Divide: Digital Humanities and the Caribbean" symposium, University of Florida (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
"Nineteenth Century Bands and/as Collective Care," West Indian Literature Conference, University of the West Indies, Trinidad (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2017
"No. 1 Gold: An Ephemeral Archive," Thinking Its Presence: Race + Creative Writing + Art, Univ. of Arizona-Tuscon (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2017
"Pushing Boundaries: Creativity within and Beyond the Archive," Caribbean Studies Association Conference, Bahamas, Accepted, unable to attend (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2017
"Reimagining Trans-National and Local Solidarities: Lessons from the Radical Transnational Research Seminar" Roundtable, National Women's Studies Association Conference, Baltimore (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2017
"The Black Body: Caribbean. Queer. Beyond Stereotypes," The Griot Institute for Africana Studies Lecture & Performance Series, Bucknell University (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
"When Yes Means No: A Roundtable on Consent in Carnival Culture," Brooklyn Museum (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
Barnard Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program Distinguished Lecturer (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
Discussant, Pre-Show Talk, "Untamed Spaces" by Renegade Performance Group, Dansspace (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
Interviewed Guest, "On the Margin" with E. Ethelbert Miller, 29 June 2017, www.wpfwfm.org
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
Interviewed Guest, "Writers on Writing" with Brenda Greene, aired December 2017, http://centerforblackliterature.org/this-week-on-writers-on-writing-with-dr-brenda-greene-rosamond-s-king/
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
Invited Speaker, "Case Study of a Poetry Collection," The Literary Writers Conference, The New School (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
Invited Speaker, "Teaching in Times of Trouble: The University as Sanctuary," PEN World Voices Festival (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
Invited Speaker, "The Shock of Elsewhere: History? The Past? Memory?" in "History, the Past, and Memory: The 2017 Callaloo conference," Georgetown University (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
Participant, "Reimagining Trans-National and Local Solidarities: Lessons from the Radical Transnational Research Seminar" Roundable, National Women's Studies Association Conference, Baltimore (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2017
Radical Transnational Feminisms Workshop, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
Speaker, Work-Life Balance panel, SSRC-Mellon Mays Postdoctoral Fellows Retreat, NYC (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
"150 Years of Jamettes? Thinking Sexuality, Race, and Gender in Trinidadian Protest Performance," Lunchtime Seminar, Institute for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016
"Dangerous Curves: A conversation about performance and politics," Alice Yard, Woodbrook, Trinidad (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016
"Dangerous Curves: The Black Female Body in Performance," Black Portraiture(s) III, Johannesburg, South Africa (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2016
"Just a Wine: Body Politics in the Carnival," The Cloth Space, Belmont, Trinidad (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016
Keynote Speaker, ¿Del otro lao? Colloquium: Perspectives on Queer Studies, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016
Speaker, Monthly Tea Reading & Discussion, Paper-Based Books, St. Ann's, Trinidad (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016
"Words Fall Away: A Roundtable on Black Queer Experimental Writing," Fire & Ink IV: Witness, Detroit (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
"Caribbean Queens: Sex & Respectability in Ivy Queen, Drupatee, and Rihanna," Wesleyan University (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
"Island Bodies Salon Discussion," with Colin Robinson, Bocas LitFest, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
"QCV2: Queer Caribbean Visualities Symposium," Small Axe & Columbia University (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
"Redefining Freedom & Sexual Justice: Troubling Queer and Privileging Local Resistance in the Caribbean" Roundtable, American Studies Association Conference, Toronto (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
"The Most Homophobic Place on Earth? Caribbean Myths & Realities," University College of London Institute for the Americas Series/Book Launch (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
"Transgressive Caribbean Imaginaries: Presentation and discussion of Island Bodies and Coloniality of Diasporas," Critical Caribbean Studies Series, Rutgers Univ.-New Brunswick (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
"Backchatting Caribbean Heteropatriarchy," International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture, & Society Conference, Dublin (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2015
Guest Lecturer, "Feminist/Queer Theories: Queer Key Words" Graduate Seminar taught by Prof. Gayatri Gopinath, New York University (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
"Black/Queer/Diaspora." Respondent to Jafari Allen (Yale). Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies, CUNY Graduate Center. New York. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"Caribbean Sexualities, Digital Technologies, & the Caribbean IRN," with Angelique V. Nixon, "The Caribbean Digital." Columbia University. New York. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"Rosamond S. King on Jayne Cortez." Poets on Poets series. The Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, Brooklyn College. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"Black/Queer/Diaspora" respondent to Jafari Allen (Yale University), CLAGS. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
"Caribbean Digital Humanities & Digital Humanities in the Caribbean." Association of Commonwealth Literature & Language Studies. Castries, St. Lucia. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
"Caribbean Poets of the 20th Century." Poets House "Passwords" 25th Anniversary Program. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
"Collapsing Identities, Coalition Politics, and the Political Economy of Black Queer Studies." Black Sexual Economies: Transforming Black Sexualities Research. Washington University of St. Louis Law School. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
"Cross-dressing in Carnival: History, Politics, Commesse." 50/21: The 50th Anniversary of Caribbean Independence & Impacts for the 21st Century Student. Brooklyn College. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
"The Treatment of Trans Folks in Popular Caribbean Media" and "Sexualities in the Tent," Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
Discussant / Moderator, "You Gotta Serve Somebody: Rethinking Race, Queer Politics, and Practice," with Urvashi Vaid and Dean Spade. CLAGS. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
Moderator, "Cultural Work: Finding Our People, Finding Our Politics." Queer Dreams & Nonprofit Blues: Dilemmas of the Nonprofit Tradition in LGBT Politics. Columbia University Law School. New York. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
Plenary speaker, "TASS@20: Reflecting, Reconnecting & Recommitting." Indiana University and the Telluride Association. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
Plenary speaker, "The International Resource Network: The First 10 Years." CLAGS. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
Plenary speaker, with Angela Davis & Ama Ata Aidoo. "Yari Yari Ntoaso: Continuing the Dialogue." Accra, Ghana. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
"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
Plenary speaker, "Promoting Sexual Justice: Advocacy, Activism, and Academic Research." International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture, & Society. Madrid. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 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
Chair, Brooklyn Celebrates Stonewall 50 Planning Committee (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2019
Co-chair, Caribbean Region of the International Resource Network (www.irnweb.org), 2008-present. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2019
Creative Editor, sx salon, 2017-Present (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2019
Director, BC Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, 2018-Present
Responsibilities include: Planning and coordinating events; Managing Wolfe staff; liaising with BC administration and cosponsors; managing an endowed budget of $150,000+
Accomplishments include: Creating and leading the BC Celebrates Stonewall 50 event series; overseeing the first Latino Hess Scholar-in-Residence and more than a dozen other programs each semester. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2019
Member, Advisory Board, the Digital Library of the Caribbean (DLoC), housed at the University of Florida libraries, 2019-Present (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2019
Member, Executive Board of Directors, the Organization of Women Writers of Africa, 2010-present. President, 2018-Present (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2019
Member, New York City Stonewall 50 Consortium, 2018-2019
(Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2019
Member, Planning Committee, The LGBTQ+ American Museum of History and Culture, 2018-Present. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2019
Social Science Research Council-Mellon Mays PhD Professional Development Conference Planning Task Force, 2018-2019 (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2019
BC English Department Appointments Committee (elected) (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2017
Facilitator, "The Nuts & Bolts of the Annual Review: A Professional Development Workshop," the CUNY Faculty Diversity Initiative (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2017
Judge, Brooklyn College Himan Brown Poetry MFA Awards (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2017
Member, CUNY Diversity Conference Planning Committee, 2013-2017. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2017
Director, BC Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, January 2014-2016. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2016
Member, Caribbean Studies Association Conference Planning Committee, 2015-2016 & 2011-2012 (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2016
Member, Marion Thompson Wright Study Group, The Clement A. Price Institute of Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience, Institute Rutgers Univ.-Newark, 2015-Present (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2016
Elected member, English Department Strategic Planning Committee, 2012-2015. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2015
Member, Brooklyn College Awards Committee, 2010-2015. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2015
Member, Caribbean Studies Strategic Planning Committee, 2010-2015. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2015
Member, English Department Curriculum Committee, 2012-2015 (chair, 2013-14). (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2015
Member, Brooklyn College Graduate Curriculum Committee, 2012-2014. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2014
Member, Caribbean Studies Curriculum Development Committee, 2011-2014. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2014
"Erasure Within Community: An Overview of Caribbean Women Who Desire Women." Discussion on Families, Interpersonal Relationships, and the Rights of LGTBI Persons. Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Organization of American States. Washington, D.C. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2013
Co-facilitator, Studio Museum in Harlem Book Club. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2013
Board member, The Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies, 2007-11. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2011
Member, Brooklyn College Honorary Awards Committee, 2010-11. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2011
Member, LGBT Studies Task Force, to create an M.A. program at the CUNY Graduate Center. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2011
Pedagogical Achievements
Performance Workshop, Denison University (OH) 2018
Performance Workshop,"Split This Rock, Washington, D.C. 2018
Writing and Movement Workshop, Global Girls Chicago 2018
Creative Writing Workshop, Brown University 2017
Performance Workshop, Bocas Literary Festival, Trinidad 2017
Book Arts, Poetry, & Synesthesia Workshop, Museum of Arts & Design Professional Development for Teachers Program. 2013
Guest instructor, "Performance Art: Body, Gesture, Memory," University of Zimbabwe, Harare. 2013
Visiting Professor, Short Course on Caribbean Sexualities, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine (Trinidad & Tobago) and Cave Hill (Barbados). 2013
Co-organizer, "Neither Heaven nor Hell: The Realities of Sexual Minority Organizing in the Caribbean," part of the "Seminars in the City" series sponsored by CLAGS. 2009
Community Activities
Other Professional Activities
Fundamentals of Becoming an Expert Witness Workshop, Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies, CUNY Graduate Center 2019
UndocuAlly Training to assist undocumented students, Brooklyn College 2019
Brooklyn College CUNY Faculty Diversity Initiative Mentor 2018
Ethics Training, Brooklyn College 2018
Guest lecturer, "Sexualities, Bodies, & Power" Graduate Seminar, Institute for Gender & Development Studies, University of the West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago 2018
Strategies for Arts & Humanities Gratseeking, CUNY Graduate Center 2018
"Invisibile No More: Andrea J. Ritchie on Police Violence against Women of Color," Women's Center, Office of the President, Office of the HSS Dean, Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute & other partners 2017
Cultural Advisor & Curator, MOFAD Caribbean City, Museum of Food and Drink 2016
