Job title:
Ph.D. Student
Department:
Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies
Bio/CV:
Franchesca Araújo is a Ph.D. student in African American & African Diaspora Studies. Rooted in Caribbean studies, she writes within political theory, disability studies, performance studies, aesthetics and anti colonial poetics and theory.
She is currently writing interdisciplinarily about how deficiency and excess are produced and ascribed onto black cultural productions and spaces as a central part of normative humanness, colonial world craft, state sovereignty/state formation, and resource deprivation---focusing on black dominicanidad and dominican cultural productions vis a vis the state, imperial power, and 'latinidad' at large. In her writing she is committed to affirmations of place rather than nation and to island geographies.
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