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.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Book Chapters

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

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

2024     Time Travel and Bodily Epistemology in Ava Duvernay’s Selma and Haile Gerima’s Sankofa. Journal for Religion, Film and Media. 10.25364/05.10:2024.

2023     Liberation Theology in Exile: Marxism and Christianity in Lucia Engombe’s Child No. 95. Christianity and Literature. 10.1353/chy.2023.a917891

2019     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. 10.1080/13696815.2018.1453351

2018     “Fresh from the West”: Marxism, Commodity Fetishism and Naficy’s Chronotopes of Life in Exile in Nancy Mac Granaky-Quaye’s Beento. Film Criticism.  10.3998/fc.13761232.0042.202

2017     Frantz Fanon’s Conceptualization of Decolonization in Sonallah Ibrahim’s The Committee. African Literature Today. 10.1515/9781787442351-008