Angelique V. Nixon, Ph.D. ~ CV

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy in English, University of Florida,
completed August 2008, degree date December 2008

  • Dissertation: Consuming Identities: Crosscurrents of Tourism, Diaspora, and Mobility in Caribbean Literature and Culture. Committee: Leah Rosenberg (Chair), Malini Johar Schueller, Faye V. Harrison, Apollo Amoko, and Amy Abugo Ongiri

  • Concentration in Postcolonial Studies & Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies and Gender Research

  • Fields of Study: African Diaspora Literature, Caribbean Literature and Culture, African American Literature and Culture, Postcolonial and Feminist Theory, Black Cultural Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Postcolonial Literature, and U.S. Multi-ethnic Literature

Master of Arts Degree in English, Florida Atlantic University, August 2002

  • Thesis: Symbiosis and Exchange in Multicultural Spaces: A Study of Nadine Gordimer and Joy Harjo
  • Bachelor of Science Degree with Honors in Accounting, Nova Southeastern University, June 2000,
    Humanities & Global Studies Minors


HONORS AND AWARDS

  • University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, August 2004 - August 2008

    Campus Scholar-Leader Award, Department of English - 2008
    Auzenne Graduate Scholars Fellowship - 2006-07 & 2007-08
    Marjorie K. Rawlings Baskin Scholarship - 2004-05 & 2005-06
    Department of English, Excellence in Teaching Award - 2007
    J. Michael Rollo Diversity Impact Award 2007, Dean of Students Office - 2007
    College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Travel Grant - Spring 2006
    Department of English Travel Grants - Spring 2005, Spring 2006, & Summer 2007
    Virgil Hawkins Award for Academic Excellence, Institute of Black Culture - 2006
    Roderick J. McDavis Academic Achievement Award, Black Graduate Student Awards - 2006
    FLAS Fellowship, Center for African Studies, Yoruba Intensive Study - Summer 2005

  • Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, August 2000 - August 2002

    FAU Graduate Grant - Fall 2000 and Winter 2001
    Graduate Student Association Travel Grants - 2000-02

  • Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, August 1996 - June 2000

    International Student Scholarship - 3 years, 1997-2000
    IRP Endowment Scholarship - 2 years, 1997-98 & 1999-2000
    Juan Pablo Memorial Scholarship, 1997-98 (Outstanding International Student Award - first recipient)
    NSU Book Award - 3 years, 1997-2000
    NSU Student Government Association Scholarship, Spring 1997 & Spring 1998
    Alpha Chi Honor Society, Inducted January 1998
    President/Officer for the Alpha Chi Honor Society, January 1999 to May 2000
    Delta Business Grant, January 2000
    Judith Shulimson Memorial Scholarship from the Women's Studies Center, February 2000

PUBLICATIONS - Academic

  • "What Racial Hybridity? - Sexual Politics of Mixed-Race Identities in the Caribbean and the Performance of Blackness." Lucayos, (Spring 2008) Peer-reviewed Biannual Journal, School of English Studies. The College of the Bahamas.

  • "Kamau Brathwaite" and "The Bahamas." Encyclopedia of Africa and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History. Eds. Richard M. Juang and Noelle Morrissette. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, March 2008.

  • "Poem and Tale as Double Helix in Joy Harjo's A Map to the Next World." SAIL: Studies in American Indian Literatures 18:1 (Spring 2006).

  • "'Relating across Difference': bell hooks, Caribbean Feminism, and Michelle Cliff's Radical Black Subjectivity." The Caribbean Woman Writer as Scholar (Collection from the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars 10th Annual Conference). Ed. Carole Boyce-Davies. Forthcoming.

UNDER REVIEW - Academic Essay

  • "Why the 'Other America' is Armed Black and Dangerous: Racism, Nation, and the Paradox of Difference." Under Review.

PUBLICATIONS - Other

  • "What do we call ourselves? - The Politics of Racial Mixing in the Bahamas." (newspaper article) Three Part Series. The Nassau Guardian. 21 July 2007, 28 July 2007, 4 August 2007.

  • "Ripe Mango," "philosophy of thought/emotion," "Mud Woman," "disTorted noTions of fReeDom," and "Sisters." (poems) ProudFlesh: New Afrikan Journal of Culture, Politics, and Consciousness, Issue #4 (Dec 2006).

  • "SpAcE," "Pass and Blend," and "Delicate Nature." (poems) Julie Mango: International Online Journal of Creative Expressions (Second Edition, May 2006).

  • "minkisi" and "Collage of Being." (poems) Journal of Caribbean Literatures. Forthcoming.

  • "womanship" and "Rainwater." (poems) Erotique Caribbean: Anthology of Caribbean Erotica. Forthcoming.

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

  • Speaker, "'We have something to teach the world': Erna Brodber's Blackspace, Building Community, and Educo-tourism." 11th Conference of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars, St. George's University in Grenada, May 19-23, 2008

  • Speaker, "The Politics of Blackness: African Diaspora Travel and Identity." 32nd Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, May 28 - June 1, 2007

  • Speaker, "Consuming Blackness: The Sexual Politics of Tourism in Oonya Kempadoo's Tide Running." 1st Annual Black Cultural Interventions into Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, March 2007

  • Speaker, "What Racial Hybridity? - Sexual Politics of Mixed-Race Identities in the Caribbean and the Performance of Blackness." 26th Annual Conference on West Indian Literature at The College of The Bahamas in Nassau, The Bahamas, March 2007

  • Invited Speaker, Panel Discussion on Activism and Leadership. Institute of Black Culture's Annual Black Student Leadership Conference. University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, January 27th, 2007

  • Speaker, "Whose Liberation is it? - bell hooks, Radical Black Subjectivity, and Caribbean Feminism." The Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars 10th Anniversary International Conference, hosted by Florida International University in Hollywood, Florida, May 30 - June 3, 2006

  • Speaker, "More Fyah! - Resistance, Liberation, and Consciousness: The Representation of Blackness in Contemporary Dancehall and Reggae." Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States, 20th Annual Conference in Boca Raton, Florida, April 2006

  • Speaker, "The Returning Caribbean Subject as a Counterculture to Consumption: Jamaica Kincaid, Paule Marshall, and Edwidge Danticat." The 25th Anniversary Conference on West Indian Literature at the University of the West Indies in St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, March 2006

  • Invited Speaker, Roundtable - "Women, Activism, and the Academy." English Graduate Organization Annual Conference at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, October 2005

  • Speaker, "Kamau Brathwaite, 'Transversality', and the Production of History: Subterranean Convergence in The Arrivants." Caribbean Literary Symposium at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, April 2005

  • Speaker, "Silence Speaks: The Abjected Body in Joy Kogawa's Obasan." Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States,17th Annual Conference in Boca Raton, Florida, April 2003

  • Speaker, "Poem and Tale as Double Helix in Joy Harjo's A Map to the Next World."' The Native American Literature Symposium in Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2003

  • Speaker, "Violence and Resistance as Enjoyment in Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven." The Second International of the US Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies at Santa Clara University in San Jose, California, April, 2002

  • Speaker, "Joy Harjo and Ecofeminism: Defying the Western Patriarchal Notions of Woman/Nature." The Native American Literature Symposium in Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 2002

  • Speaker, "The Cryptic Agenda in Boys on the Side: A Black Feminist Reading." The Popular Culture Association in the South, Regional Conference in Atlantic Beach, Florida, October 2001

  • Speaker, "The Crossing of Gender in Fiction in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace." The Southeastern Women's Studies Association Conference, Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, March 2001

  • Speaker, "Gender in Rock: Images in the Rock Music Industry." The Sixth Annual English Society Conference, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, Published in Conference Proceedings, February 2001

OTHER PRESENTATIONS

  • Panelist, "Sex, Sexuality, Homophobia, and HIV in the Caribbean." Crisis in the Caribbean: An HIV/AIDS Symposium. University of Florida, April 23, 2008

  • Keynote Speaker, "Community Building and Survival." Keynote Speaker, Beta Eta Sigma (Black Honor Society) Induction Ceremony, University of Florida, April 6, 2008

  • Panelist, "Poverty in the Caribbean: Beyond the Beauty." Jamaican-American Student Association Forum. University of Florida, October 18, 2007

  • Panelist, "Why'd You Have to Make a Record Bout Me!: Radical and Profane Narratives of Gender and Sexuality in Female Hip-hop and Dancehall Culture." Panel Discussion at the Book Discussion & Signing of Mutha' is half a word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, & Queerness in Black Female Culture by LaMonda Horton-Stallings. University of Florida, September 20, 2007

  • Workshop Facilitator, "Caribbean Literature and Culture." Florida Caribbean Students' Association Biannual Conference - Knowledge, Roots, Power: Using Academia to Initiate a Positive Transition in the Caribbean - Workshops, University of Florida, November 4, 2006

  • Invited Speaker, "Building Unity and Embracing Difference across the African Diaspora:" Black History Month 2006 Opening Ceremonies, University of Florida, January 27, 2006

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

New York University, New York, NY ~ Aug 2008 to present
Africana Studies, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis

  • Postdoctoral Fellowship

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Aug 2004 to Aug 2008
Department of English, Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Instructor for Writing and Literature Courses
  • Survey of American Literature
  • Issues in American Literature and Culture
  • Professional Writing for Business
  • Argument and Persuasion
  • Guest Lecture on Gayl Jones' CoRregidora, AML 3271 Survey of African American Literature II
  • Guest Lecture on Working in the Tourist Industry, LIT 4183 Tourism, the Caribbean, and Literature

Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL Aug 2002 to Aug 2004
Department of English, Full Time Instructor

  • Undergraduate Literature survey courses - Interpretation of Fiction (World, American, and Multicultural); Interpretation of Poetry (British, American, and Multicultural)
  • Assistant to Department's Associate Chair and English Undergraduate Advisor: responsibilities included advising students, preparing the schedule of courses for the department, and organizing teaching preferences for professors, instructors, adjuncts, and teaching assistants

Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL Aug 2000 - Aug 2002
Department of English, Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Instructor for Writing Courses: First-year Composition; Introduction to Writing; Writing for Management
    Tutor for Department of English Writing Center
  • English Undergraduate Advising: responsibilities included advising students & assisting in preparing the schedule of courses for the department.

COURSES DEVISED & TAUGHT

"Race and Identity Politics," special topics - Issues in American Literature and Culture
Examined race and identity politics in American literature and culture. Special emphasis on history, nationalism, immigration, race, gender, and class. Focused on multi-ethnic literature, particularly Native American, African American, Caribbean American, and Asian American.

"Women of Color and the Poetics of Resistance," Survey of American Literature
An introduction to specific aspects of American literature through a study of significant writers, forms, and issues-specifically contemporary poetry, personal narratives, and essays by women of color with a focus on the aesthetic principles of resistance in literature.

"Women Writers of Color," Survey of American Literature
Studied novels by women of color with a focus on race, gender, and class. Special emphasis on the politics of history and identities, intersections of race, gender, class and sexuality, liberation struggles, language, migration, labor, and displacement.

Various composition and writing courses, as well as undergraduate surveys of fiction and poetry (including Multicultural Literature, World Literature, British and American Poetry, and Women's Literature)

TEACHING INTERESTS

African Diaspora Literature, Caribbean Literature and Culture, African American Literature, Black Cultural Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, U.S. Multi-ethnic Literature (including Native American, Latino/a American, and Asian American), Race and Identity Politics, Women Writers of Color, Black Women Writers, Women of Color and Poetry, Caribbean Women Writers, Postcolonial Theory and Literature(s), Feminist Postcolonial Theory, African Literature, Feminisms and Womanism, Native American Women Writers

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • Modern Language Association (MLA)
  • Caribbean Studies Association (CSA)
  • Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars (ACWWS)
  • Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States (MELUS)

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

  • Spanish: intermediate reading and translation
  • Yoruba: intermediate reading and translation

FIELD STUDIES (received scholarships and funding for both)

  • Women's Studies Center, Study Abroad at the University of Ghana in West Africa, April - May 2004
    Gender, Culture and Social Change in Africa: A Case Study of Ghana; Graduate course - 3 credits

  • Sustainable Development Project, Study Abroad in Iquitos, Peru, May - June 1999
    Intensive study of the Peruvian Amazon - culture, environment, and language; Undergraduate course - 9 credits

PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

University of Florida

  • Black Graduate Student Organization, President 2005-07
    - Chair Positions: MLK Annual Celebration 2007-08 & Black History Month 2004-05
  • Institute of Black Culture, Advisory Council, 2007-08
  • Caribbean Students Association, Member 2004-Present,
    - Workshops Director, Florida Caribbean Students Association Conference hosted by UF CaribSA - Fall 2006
  • Multicultural and LGBT Affairs, Ally Training, "Black and LGBTQ Identities" - Spring 2007
  • Peer Advisor for the Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program, 2005-07
  • Postcolonial Reading Group, Coordinator 2004 to Present
  • English Graduate Organization, Member 2004 to Present
  • Graduate Assistants United, Member 2004 to Present
  • United Faculty of Florida, Graduate Student Senator 2005-06

Community Service

  • Volunteer organizer, Critical Resistance Gainesville Chapter
  • Volunteer, Gainesville Books for Prisoners
  • Volunteer, College Reach Out Program & Tutoring - Wilhelmina Johnson Center, 2005-07
  • Volunteer, Project Inspiration - Gainesville Juvenile Detention Center, 2004-05

Florida Atlantic University

  • Coastlines: The Literary Magazine of FAU, Writer and Editorial Staff 2001
  • English Graduate Student Society, President 2001-2002 and Vice-President 2000-2001
  • Sigma Tau Delta, English Honor Society, Inducted Winter 2001 & Treasurer 2000-01
  • Graduate Student Association, Member 2000-02

WORK EXPERIENCE - non-academic

Pett, Furman & Jacobson PLC ~ Boca Raton, FL ~ Aug 2002 to Aug 2004

  • Accountant (Part-time) ~ Developed Accounting System using JURIS software.

Nova Southeastern University ~ Fort Lauderdale, FL

  • WNSU Radio Station (NSU Radio X 88.5 FM) ~ Aug 1997 – Aug 2000
    Station Manager – Two Years: Responsible for the everyday operation of the Student Run Station
    • Recruited and Trained many staff members & Supervised staff members
    • Directly involved in successful FM status – Evening Program on 88.5 FM
    • Responsible for all Budget Matters and communication with Administration
    Program Director – One Year: Responsible for all volunteer DJ’s and Programming the Station
    • Recruited, Trained and Evaluated over 30 DJ’s to prepare for FM
  • The Flight Deck, Student Life ~ Oct 1996 – May 1997
    Student Worker – Flight Crew

Various Jobs Nassau, Bahamas Aug 1996 –Dec 2000
During Christmas and Summer Breaks: Guaranty Trust Bank Ltd. & Service Industry

Guaranty Trust Bank Limited Nassau, Bahamas July 1993 to August 1996
Position: Junior Accountant

  • Responsible for the Accounting of Managed Companies, Arranged funding and money transfers, Month-end and Year-end reporting and Audit adjustments.

 

 

  

 

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