My research and teaching focuses on Black art and Black visual culture(s) as articulated through painting, photography, film/video, and performance. My other interests include identity and representation, critical pleasure studies, and contemporary Black life. My current project examines the visual culture of Black pleasure and the aesthetics of Black joy and safe space in the visual representations of quotidian Blackness as depicted by the painters labeled by Thelma Golden as the Black romantic.
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African Diasporic visual studies, Black visual culture, critical pleasure studies, identity and representation, contemporary Black life
Teaching
courses taught
ARTH 3929 - Special Topics in Art History
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Fall 2022 / Summer 2023 / Spring 2024 / Summer 2024
May be repeated up to 18 total credit hours when topic varies.
ARTH 4919 - Capstone Seminar: Topics in Art History
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Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
Seminar course dealing with selected areas or problems within the history of art. Consult current online Schedule Planner for seminar topic. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours.
ARTH 4929 - Special Topics in Art History
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Spring 2023 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
May be repeated up to 18 total credit hours when topic varies. Same as ARTH 5929.
