Angelique ~ Research

Publications

Academic

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

"Kamau Brathwaite" and "The Bahamas" ~ Encyclopedia of Africa and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History. ~ Eds. Richard M. Juang and Noelle Morrissette. 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" ~ Forthcoming in The Caribbean Woman Writer as Scholar, Collection from the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars Conference, Edited Collection by Carole Boyce-Davies

Non-academic

Newspaper Article: "What do we call ourselves? - The Politics of Racial Mixing in the Bahamas." Three Part Series. The Nassau Guardian. 21 July 2007, 28 July 2007, 4 August 2007.

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

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

Poems: "Collage of Being" and "minkisi" ~ Journal of Caribbean Literatures. Forthcoming.

Poems: "womanship" and "RainWater" ~ Erotique Caribbean: Anthology of Caribbean Erotica. Forthcoming.

Conferences

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 ~ 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, FL ~ 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, FL ~ 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, FL ~ May 30th - June 3rd, 2006

Speaker, "More Fyah! - Resistance, Liberation, and Consciousness: The Representation of Blackness in Contemporary Dancehall and Reggae" ~ 20th Annual MELUS Conference (Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States) at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL ~ 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 Conference on Theory, Activism, and Creativity at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL ~ October 2005

Speaker, “Kamau Brathwaite, ‘Transversality’, and the Production of History: Subterranean Convergence in The Arrivants” ~ The Caribbean Literary Symposium at Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA ~ 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 (MELUS) 17th Annual Conference in Boca Raton, FL ~ April 2003

Moderator, Rage and Construction of Community ~ Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) 17th Annual Conference in Boca Raton, FL ~ 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, MN ~ 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, CA ~ April, 2002

Speaker, “Joy Harjo and Ecofeminism: Defying the Western Patriarchal Notions of Woman/Nature” ~ The Native American Literature Symposium in Minneapolis, MN ~ 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, FL – October 2001

Speaker, “The Crossing of Gender in Fiction in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace” ~ The Southeastern Women’s Studies Association Conference at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL ~ March 2001

Speaker, “Gender in Rock: Images in the Rock Music Industry” ~ The Sixth Annual English Society Conference at Texas Tech University in Lubbuck, TX ~ Published in the Conference Proceedings ~ February 2001

Courses/Seminars taken in Graduate School

University of Florida

  • Caribbean Literature and the Haunting of History
  • Post Black or Neo-soul? - Contemporary Black Cultural Studies
  • Issues of Gender and Sexuality in African Literatures
  • Speech/Acts/Contexts - Speech Act Theory, Performativity of Gender and Race
  • Independent Study - Pleasure, Tourism, and Caribbean Literature
  • Intensive Study of Yoruba - Undergraduate Upper Division Language Courses
  • Postcolonial Theory and American Studies
  • Theoretical Approaches to Black Cultural Studies: bell hooks
  • Survey of African American Literature - Inside and Outside the Af-Am Canon


    Florida Atlantic University
  • Principles and Problems in Literary Studies
  • Composition Rhetoric and Theory
  • Feminist Theory and Rhetoric
  • Possible Worlds Theory
  • Literature and the Environment
  • Southern Literature
  • History of the English Language
  • Enjoyment and Community in Multi-ethnic Literature
  • Race and Change Project - Creative Writing Workshop
  • Gender, Culture and Social Change in Africa: A Case Study of Ghana (Study Abroad)





 

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