Spring 2022 seminar: Ph.D. Literatures in English
Shacoya Kidwell is a second-year Ph.D. student in Literatures in English, a creative theorist, and a Fulbright alumna researching literature as cultural manifestations at the intersection of Black feminism and environmental thought. She endeavors to study the relationship between adverse atmospheric conditions and oppressive ideologies with specific attention to how Black people inhabit, subvert colonial conceptions of time and space. Her projects, including The Rememory Library, a digital repository of revolutionary materials, examine the entanglements between narrative, the land, flora, and fauna. Her work seeks to remember what has happened here as well as the hidden genealogies and cosmologies that will aid in our collective imagining of just, sustainable futures.