improvisation. invention. caribbean. black life. living in the questions.

“New energies of darkness/we disturbed a continent/like seeds.” -June Jordan, “Who Look at Me”

Research Interests

Black Feminist Thought, Anglophonic Literature, Black Studies, Caribbean Intellectual Thought, Subaltern Studies, Dalit Studies, Decolonial Theory and Literatures, Women of Color Feminisms, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Queer of Color Critique.

Publications

(Forthcoming invited chapter) Wingate, Colin. “A Ship to the Door of No Return: “Blackened” Ghost

and the Hauntology of the Slave Ship.” in special issue under preparation, Bodies that Haunt:

Rethinking the Political Economy of Racialized Death.

Refereed Conference Presentations

2022    “Bodies that Haunt: Rethinking the Political Economy of Racialized Death.” Roundtable at the National Women’s Studies Association. Minneapolis, MN. November 2022.

2021    “by nothing Human: Towards a Method of Refusal and Imagination in Black Studies.” Paper

                      Presentation at American Studies Association. San Juan, Puerto Rico. November 2021. 

                      [accepted; unable to attend]

2019     “Being on the Fly: Sylvia Wynter, Black Performance, and the Inventiveness of Black Life.” Paper Presentation at National Women’s Studies Association. San Francisco, CA. November 2019. [accepted; unable to attended]

  2018     “Fast and Out of Place": A Meditation on Unruly Black Being.” Paper Presentation at

               National Women’s Studies Association. Atlanta, GA. November 2018.