Publications & Research
I have published feature articles and academic texts since 2008 addressing topics that range from the representation of trauma to the presentation of art by Black Canadians.
2022
2016
2014
2010
Tilling: Permanence for Black Diasporic Art in Canada
C Magazine
Feel-Good Movies About the End of the (Natural) World?
Ethos: A Digital Review of Arts, Humanities & Public Ethics, University of North Carolina
Eco-Trauma Cinema
Routledge (Editor)
Global Trauma and the Cinematic Network Society Routledge
Critical Studies in Media Communication
The newly established Centre for the Study of Black Canadian Diaspora (CSBCD) is under construction at OCAD University’s (OCAD U) Toronto campus. A research and exhibition hub, the Centre is dedicated to Black visual cultures in Canada. Among its stated aims is a mission to conduct inquiries that reject anthropological, extractivist, even scientific frameworks long entrenched in the academic study of specific cultural groups.
Human annihilation was on offer at the cinema throughout the summer and fall of 2015. As in previous years, such as the 1998 “asteroid summer” (Armageddon, Deep Impact), many recent Hollywood films have found success dramatizing the threat of our extinction. New sequels to The Terminator, Mad Max, Jurassic Park andThe Avengers have reached massive audiences, each by dramatizing threats to our survival in very different ways.
This book investigates in particular film's complex role in representing ecological traumas. Eco-trauma cinema represents the harm we, as humans, inflict upon our natural surroundings, or the injuries we sustain from nature in its unforgiving iterations.
Are we really more connected interpersonally in the age of accelerated globalization? Do global social networks principally empower connected agents, or are ‘‘powerless places’’ further marginalized by ‘‘placeless power’’? This article examines how twenty-first century US cinema maps social networks, both international and interpersonal.