Black feminisms | The Harriet Tubman Institute

Kai Butterfield

rebsl — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 20:09:52 +0000

Kai Butterfield is an artist, Ontario Certified Teacher, and PhD student in the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (University of Toronto). Their doctoral research employs hauntology as a methodological approach to assess the ways that antiblackness has shaped restorative justice theory in North America. Hauntology, a methodology that presences the enduring impact of historical harm, illuminates how the spectre of slavery haunts restorative justice theory and appears in schools as the continued subjugation of Black students within restorative justice processes.

Keywords: Restorative Justice, School Discipline, Social Justice Education, Black Studies, Black Canadian Studies, Black Feminisms, Hauntology, Haunting as Methodology

Jen Katshunga

rebsl — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 18:46:03 +0000

Jen Katshunga is a Congolese (Mukwa Luntu/Kalonji/Luluwa,etc)-diasporic multidisciplinary artist, writer, researcher and cultural worker raised and based in Tkaronto, specifically Scarborough. They are a PhD Candidate (ABD) in the Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies program where their SSHRC funded research-creation project focuses on the ecologies of Congolese and Black/African trans* and queer cultural production in so-called Canada and Democratic Republic of Congo in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Keywords: Black African Trans* & Queer Feminisms/(Hi)stories; Black African/Indigenous onto-epistemologies; Black African Environmental/Ecological Justice, Philosophies & Ethics; Animality/Human-Animal/Nature Relationalities; Black African Contemporary Art & Expressive Cultures; Community Engaged Research; Arts-based Methodologies/Research-Creation; Decolonial/Anti-Colonial Knowledge Productions

Joycelyn Moody

rebsl — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 17:38:47 +0000

Dr. Joycelyn Moody (she/they/hers/theirs) is Sue E. Denman Distinguished Chair in American Literature and Professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio (US). Her research and teaching concentrate on Black life writing and auto/biography, Black feminisms, and Black print cultures. She earned her MA in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her PhD in English at the University of Kansas (1993). Moody earned tenure at the University of Washington-Seattle and has taught university students since 1984 at various institutions, including South Georgia College, Hamilton College, and the Harvard Divinity School. Besides numerous articles and book chapters, she is author of Sentimental Confessions: Spiritual Autobiographies of Nineteenth-Century African American Women and the second edition of the teacher's handbook for the Norton Anthology of African American Literature. She was Editor of African American Review while on faculty at Saint Louis University (2004-2009). Most recently, she edited A History of African American Autobiography (Cambridge UP, 2021). She is Series Editor of African American Literature in Translation (Cambridge UP) and since 2009, she has served as Co-Editor of the reprint series Regenerations: African American Literature and Culture (West Virginia UP), to which she contributed Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge (2014). Moody serves on two academic advisory boards. In 2022, she concluded 12 years as Founding Director of UTSA's African American Literatures and Cultures Institute, a graduate pipeline program for underrepresented college juniors. Moody is currently 2022-2023 Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Society and Culture at the University of Alberta.

Keywords: Black life writing, Black feminisms, Black print Cultures

Célia Romulus

rebsl — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 03:37:13 +0000

Célia Romulus joined Glendon's Department of International Studies as an assistant professor in July. She completed her PhD in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University, where her research focused on: the normalization of gendered state repression under the Duvalier dictatorship; how these systematized forms of violence shaped movements of population out of Haiti; and the notion of citizenship as experienced by multiple generations of migrants. Her research and teaching draws from anti-oppression and anti-racist education, Afro and decolonial feminisms, and explores questions related to the gender and the politics of memory, migrations, citizenship, political violence and interdisciplinary methods. Prior to completing her PhD, Romulus worked as a program director in the areas of gender-based violence in public spaces and in security sector reform for UN Women, the United Nations entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. She continues to work as a consultant and trainer on questions related to anti-oppression, anti-racism, Black femininities/masculinities, gender mainstreaming in public policies and in development.

Rose Ndengue

rebsl — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 03:27:00 +0000

Rose Ndengue is a Socio-historian and political scientist, Cameroonian scholar-activist, who defines herself as a black feminist from the transatlantic space, straddling Africa, Europe and the Americas. She is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Global studies at Glendon, �첥��Ƶ, where she is developing a teaching and research program in African Studies and Black feminisms, from postcolonial and decolonial frameworks.

Her research focuses on gender and politics in Africa and in the diasporas, in colonial and postcolonial contexts, with a particular emphasis on African and Afrodescendant women's mobilizations in Cameroonian and French contexts.

Keywords: Black feminisms, Gender and politics, Knowledge decolonization, African studies