My research focuses on ideas about space (e.g., center, margin, underground, home, museum, nation) and power. Specifically, I look at how long-19th-century metaphysical and Romantic philosophies both supported and disrupted ideas of the expanding Br
...MoreMy research focuses on ideas about space (e.g., center, margin, underground, home, museum, nation) and power. Specifically, I look at how long-19th-century metaphysical and Romantic philosophies both supported and disrupted ideas of the expanding British empire and at how African and Afro-diasporic writers attempt to transform these colonial ideas to argue a longstanding African presence that counters dominant concepts (i.e., colonial concepts) of space and the power structures sustained by those concepts. I ask how these “transformed ideas” promote a more just and sustainable world.
Additionally, I am working on a book about my six-year (61,000 kms) bicycle trip through Europe and Africa; it includes an emphasis on kitchens, birds, and connecting with others.
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New Directions in the Humanities
