PEER-REVIEWED SCHOLARSHIP

“Profane Illumination: On the Racial Limits of Documentary Realism.” Film-Philosophy. Volume 29, Issue 2 (2025), pp. 380-400.

“‘Too Thick Love, or Bearing the Unbearable,” in Gregory J. Seigworth and Carolyn Pedwell (eds.), The Affect Theory Reader 2: Worldings, Tensions, Futures (Durham: Duke University Press, 2023), 191-213.

“On Black Aesthesis,” Diacritics, A Review of Contemporary Criticism, “Black Resistance,” Volume 49, Number 4, 2021, pp. 21-53.

“Explorations in Diasporic Time,” in Erika Balsom, Lucy Reynolds and Sarah Perks (eds.), Artists’ Moving Image in Britain Since 1989 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019), 71-88.

*Longlisted for the 2020 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Moving Image Book Award*

“Black Cinematic Gesture and the Aesthetics of Contagion.” TDR: The Drama Review, vol. 62, no. 1 (2018): 14-30

*Winner of the 2019 Gertrude Lippincott Award for Best English-language Article in Dance Studies*

“Vestiges of Motherhood: The Maternal Function in Recent Black Cinema.” Film Quarterly, vol. 71, no. 2 (2017): 46-52.

“Living in the Absence of a Body.” Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, "Black Holes: Afro-Pessimism, Blackness and the Discourses of Modernity," no. 28 (2016).

“Poethics of the Open Boat.” AcceSSions: Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, no. 2 (2016).
(In Response to Denise Ferreira da Silva.)

“Reinventing Capacity.” Black Camera: An International Film Journal, “Fugitivity and the Filmic Imagination,” vol. 7 no. 1 (2015): 162-78.

“Awakening to the World: Relation, Totality, and Writing from Below.” Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, vol. 36, no. 1 (2014): 112-31.

“Transferred Flesh: Reflections on Senga Nengudi’s R.S.V.P.” TDR: The Drama Review, vol. 59, no. 1 (2015): 161-66.

“Introduction: Other Sensualities.” Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, “The Haptic: Textures of Performance,” vol. 24, no. 2-3 (2014): 129-33.

“An Interview with Artist Pope. L.” Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, “The Haptic: Textures of Performance,” vol. 24, no. 2-3 (2014)" 220-23.