Thesis Title: Black Flesh(ing): (Re)reading and (Un)writing Bodies in Black Women’s Writing, 1973-present.
Supervisors: Nicole King and Malachi McIntosh
Research Interests: Literary and Cultural Theory; Embodiment Theory; Postcolonial literary studies; Black diasporic literature; Black Feminism(s); Reception theory; Psychoanalytical theory; Philosophy; Phenomenology; New Materialisms.
When I extend my hand, then write; when her body is drawn by me and abandoned on the fibrous finish of a page; when then, there, I am rendered her maker and her person—she a part of and apart from me; when I witness my flesh extend beyond my corporeality to written words, or rather, when the skin of another, written by another, envelops me, I am forced to pause. Text and affect insist I question the definability of subjectivity and certainty of bodied existence.
Publications: Adu, Kasablanca. "Is There No Black in the Woman Question? Virago Press and the Issue of Collective Black Female Authorship." Callaloo, vol. 43 no. 1, 2025, p. 138-157. Project MUSE, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cal.2025.a962561.
