About

My research spans Black studies, political theology, and European intellectual history, with a dual focus on Black Europe—especially Germany—and Black America within the broader African diaspora. I engage German intellectual traditions, including Nietzsche, Marx, and East German political culture, alongside critical frameworks from Black political thought to reimagine continental philosophy. In parallel, I explore how race, disability, and neurodivergence shape embodiment, history, and faith, drawing on critical disability studies and theology. My work emphasizes transnational approaches to race, power, faith, and resistance.

Research and Teaching

• • Transnational Black Literatures and Visual Culture
  • African American and Afro-European Literature
  • Political Theology and Continental Thought
  • Critical Disability Literature and Theory

Selected Publications

Book Chapters

• “Nietzsche’s Use of Nightmares in Thus Spoke Zarathustra.” In Nightmares in the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Greta Colombani and Fanny Clemente. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-81164-7

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• “Time Travel and Bodily Epistemology in Ava DuVernay’s Selma (FR/UK/US 2014) and Haile Gerima’s Sankofa (BF 1993).” Journal for Religion, Film and Media, vol. 10, no. 2, 2024, pp. 87–102. https://doi.org/10.25364/05.10:2024.2.6
• “Liberation Theology in Exile: Marxism and Christianity in Lucia Engombe’s Child No. 95.” Christianity and Literature, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1353/chy.2023.a917891
• “Religious and Cultural Syncretism in FELA!: Reading the Broadway Adaptation of the Life of Fela Anikulapo Kuti through Bill T. Jones and Tejumola Olaniyan.” Journal of African Cultural Studies, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2018.1453351
• “Fresh from the West”: Marxism, Commodity Fetishism and Naficy’s Chronotopes of Life in Exile in Nancy Mac Granaky-Quaye’s Beento.” Film Criticism, 2018. https://doi.org/10.3998/fc.13761232.0042.202
• “Frantz Fanon’s Conceptualization of Decolonization in Sonallah Ibrahim’s The Committee.” African Literature Today, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781787442351-008