PEER-REVIEWED


“‘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.


CRITICISM


“Awaiting Her Verb: Simone Leigh’s Video Art,” Simone Leigh (Boston: Institute for Contemporary Art, 2023).

“Raven Leilani: On writing black interiority,” The Yale Review, Volume 111, No. 2, Summer 2023.

“The Difficulty of Black Women (A Response),” Artforum (20 December 2022).

(with Denise Ferreira da Silva) “Four Theses on Aesthetics,” e-flux, Issue #120, September 2021.

“Picturing Catastrophe: The Visual Politics of Racial Reckoning,” The Yale Review, Volume 109, Number 2, Summer 2021.

“The Weathering of Form: Jennifer Packer’s Abstract Figures,” in Melissa Blanchflower and Natalia Grabowska (eds.), Jennifer Packer: The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing. London: Serpentine Galleries, 2020.


“Incalculable Lives,” in Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz (ed.), Health. London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2020.


“The Vicissitudes of Touch: Annotations on the Haptic,” b2o review. 21 November 2020.

“A Gathering of Aporetic Form,” e-flux, Issue #105, December 2019.

“Regard for One Another: Rizvana Bradley in Conversation with Saidiya Hartman,” Los Angeles Review of Books.
9 October 2019.



“Candice Lin’s Minor Ecologies,” in Lotte Arndt and Yesomi Umolu (eds.), Candice Lin, A Hard White Body. Chicago: Logan Center for the Arts / University of Chicago Press, 2019.


“Helen Cammock: History’s Long Score,” in Laura Smith, Candy Stobbs, and Wells Fray-Smith (eds.), Helen Cammock: Che si può fare (What can be done). London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2019.


Cuts/Folds/Refusals, in On Refusal, Representation, and Resistance in Contemporary American Art. MAC Belfast, 2019, 19-23.


“On Mimi Cherono Ng’ok,” in Gabi Ngcobo (curator), 10th Berlin Biennale 2018 Catalogue: We Don't Need Another Hero. Berlin: The Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, 2018.


“Zina Saro-Wiwa: performing table manners in 21st century Nigeria,” Art | Basel, 2018.


“The Quiet Bohemia of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye,” Parkett, Vol. 99, 2017.


“Ways of the Flesh: Barbara Hammer's Vertical Worlds,” in Staci Bu Shea and Carmel Curtis (eds.), Barbara Hammer: Evidentiary Bodies. Chicago: Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay & Lesbian Art / University of Chicago Press, 2018, 56-59.


“Aesthetic Inhumanisms: Toward an Erotics of Otherworlding,” in Johanna Burton and Natalie Bell (eds.), Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon. New York: The New Museum, 2018, 195-203.



“The Time of Descent,” in Charlotte Ickes (curator), Descent, Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Philadelphia, 2016.