Book

Women’s Activist Theatre in Jamaica and South Africa: Gender, Race and Performance Space. University of Illinois Press, 2023. Read details here.

Selected Essays

“Streaming Black Girlhood: Biculturality, Nostalgia and Hypervisibility in Cuties.” Cultural Studies. Special Issue: Black Nostalgia and Black Diaspora as Cultural Production. Print issue forthcoming Summer 2024. Online September 2023. Co-authored with Barbara Thelamour.

“Migratory Subjectivities and African Diasporic Theatre: Race, Gender, and Nation.” In The Palgrave Handbook on Theatre and Migration, edited by Yana Meerzon and Stephen Wilmer. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2023.

“Activist  Aesthetics and the Work of The Mothertongue Project.” In Collaborative Conversations: Celebrating 21 Years of The Mothertongue Project, Eds. Alex Halligey and Sara Matchett. Cape Town: Modjaji Books, 2021.

“Race, the Public Sphere and Sexual Violence in the Mothertongue Project’s Walk: South Africa.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 46 No. 3. (2021): 537-560.

“Black Performance, Black Legacies, African Futures: An Africana Perspective on Marvel’s Black Panther and Luke Cage.” Annual Marcus Mosiah Garvey Lecture held at Liberty Hall, Kingston, Jamaica. August 2018. 76 King Street: Journal of Liberty Hall: The Legacy of Marcus Garvey. Vol. 5. (2021).

Girlhood Rage, Puberty and Biculturality in Cuties. Co-written with Barbara Thelamour. The Black Scholar. November 2020. read here.

“Blackness, Birthright and the Battle for Harlem: Intra-Racial Conflict in Marvel’s Luke Cage Season Two.” The Black Scholar.  August 2018. read here

“The Radical Aesthetic of Sistren Theatre Collective.” In Caribbean Reasonings: Rupert Lewis and the Black Intellectual Tradition, Eds. Clinton Hutton, Jermaine McCalpin and Maziki Thame. Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, 2018.

“History and Drama in C.L.R. James’ ‘Toussaint L’Ouverture’.” The C.L.R. James Journal 23^rd   Anniversary Issue, Nos. 1 & 2 (2014): 38-60.

“In Search of Garvey’s Genealogy: A Preliminary Analysis.” Jamaica Journal 33 No. 3 (2012): 30-59.

 “Marketing Pan-Africanism to a New Generation: The Case of Liberty Hall: The Legacy of Marcus Garvey.” In Pan-Africanism: Strengthening the Unity of Africa and its Diaspora, Eds. B.F. Bankie and K. Mchombu, 71-94. Windhoek, Namibia: Gamsberg MacMillan Publishers Ltd, 2006.

  “Legitimizing Africa in Jamaica.” In After Man: Towards the Human: Critical Essays on Sylvia Wynter, Ed. Anthony Bogues, 200-314. Miami and Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, 2005.