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Rosamond King
Academic Specialties & Research Interests
Professor King's research interests include sexuality studies
in African diaspora literature; Gambian Literature; carnival
studies, and avant-garde African diaspora literature. Her
teaching interests include African, Caribbean, and Asian-American
literature, world poetry, and performance studies. She is
fluent in French, is passably proficient in Spanish, and speaks
rudimentary Wolof.
During the 2005-2006 academic year, Prof. King will be completing
her manuscript Island Bodies: Caribbean Literary Sexualities
while she is the Junior Postdoctoral Fellow at the University
of Chicago Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture.
Publications
Book
Chief Editor & Author of introductions, Voices of the
City, an urban poetry anthology, Hanging Loose Press (April
2004)
Articles
"Dressing Down: Male Transvestism in Two Caribbean Carnivals"
commissioned by Sargasso (Forthcoming)
"Sheep and Goats Together--Interracial Relationships
from Black Men's Perspectives," The Journal of African
American Studies (Fall 2004)
"The Flesh and Blood Triangle in Paule Marshall's The
Fisher King" in Callalloo
(Spring 2003)
"'Word Plays Well with Others'--Harryette Mullen's Sleeping
with the Dictionary" in Callalloo (Spring
2003)
"Sex and Sexuality in English Caribbean Novels--A Survey
from 1950" in The Journal of West Indian Literature
(November 2002)
"Jamette Women's Double Cross: Creating an Archive"
in Women
and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, "Bodywork"
special issue (1999), pgs. 203-210
Conference Papers
"Transgender Issues in Caribbean Contexts," Invited
Colloquium, The Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies (CLAGS)
at the City University of New York, 13 April 2005
"Sexual Healing? Black Men Write Interracial Relationships,"
Black Masculinities Conference, The City University of New
York Graduate Center, 4 February 2005
"Feeling around in the Dark: Black Queer Experimental
Poetry," Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia,
December 2004
"Transforming Caribbean Studies" Roundtable, Caribbean
Studies Association Annual Conference, St. Kitts, April 2004
"Caribbean Gender Poetics--A Final Frontier?" The
Association of Caribbean Women Writers & Scholars Conference,
Dominican Republic, June 2004
"An Overview of Asians in the Caribbean," Guest
speaker as part of the first Asian-American Studies course
at Rutgers-Newark, 30 March 2004
Facilitator & Co-Organizer, "Histories of Queer
People of Color Activism," Symposium co-sponsored by
the Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies (CLAGS) at the City
University of New York and the Audre Lorde Project, NYC, February-March
2004
Guest Speaker, Freedom Academy High School Career Day, Brooklyn,
4 February 2004
"Making/Reading/Performing Black Poetry" Workshop
& Installation, Marjorie Cook Poetry Festival & Conference:
Diversity in African American Poetry, Miami University, Ohio,
20 September 2003
"Ugly Women, Useless Women," in NEH Seminar "Caribbean
Theatre & Cultural Performance," University of Puerto
Rico, Río Piedras, 16 July 2003
Respondent, "Inventing the Postcolonial," part
of "The Academic Self: Under Construction" Mellon
Conference, University of Pennsylvania, June 2003
Chair, "Interdisciplinary Session on Pedagogy,"
Mellon Postdoctoral Conference, June 2003
"Marlene Nourbese Philip's Embodied Texts," Caribbean
Studies Association 28th Annual Conference, "The Greater
Caribbean: Roots & Routes," Belize City, Belize,
28 May 2003
"Form, Content, Context & a Black Avant-Garde Tradition,"
Works-in-Progress Faculty Colloquium, Rutgers University-Newark,
NJ, 17 April 2003
"Newark Reads Du Bois," The 23rd Annual Marion
Thompson Wright Lecture Series, Rutgers University-Newark,
NJ, 15 February 2003
"Black History and You," Delta Academy, Montclair,
NJ, 8 February 2003
Moderator, "Between Pleasure and Paradox: Readings and
Reflections by Caribbean Women Writers," Festival of
Caribbean Literature, Hartford, CT, 21 September 2002
"Sex and Sexuality in Caribbean Literature: Towards
a Textual Genealogy," "(Re)Thinking Caribbean Culture,"
University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, 5-9 June
2001
"My Trinidad," San Fernando Government Girls School,
Trinidad, 4 May 2000
Moderator, "Chino Latino: Asian Cultural Communities
in Latin America" Panel, New York University, 4 November
1999
"Theorizing Caribbean Orature through the Carnival Arts
and Literature," the Third Annual World Conference on
Carnival, "Carnival: A Multiplicity of Reality,"
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, 20-23 October 1999
"Re-Thinking Transnationalism Through Intra-Caribbean
Migration" in self-proposed panel "Comparatively
Caribbean: Positioning the Caribbean in the American Academies"
at the annual conference of the American Comparative Literature
Association, "Comparative Literature and Cultural Transnationalisms:
Past and Future," Montreal, Quebec, 9-11 April 1999
"An Introduction to Scholarly Perspectives on Trinidadian
Carnival," as Invited Lecturer, Saint Frances College,
Brooklyn, New York 19 November 1998
Moderator, "Concrete Cultures: Asian American Urban
Practices," "PDA (Public Displays of Asianness):
The First Conference on Asian American Popular Culture,"
NYU, November 1998
"Jamette! Parody and Power in Creole Women's Cross-Dressing
During 19th Century Trinidadian Carnival," at the World
Conference on Caribbean Literature, Trinity College, Hartford,
Connecticut, September 1998
"Cultural Nationalism, Goddess of the Mental health
of Madness: An Analysis of Two Stories by Dionne Brand"
in self-proposed panel "The Caribbean Spirit at Home
and Abroad" at the First International Conference on
Caribbean Literature, College of the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas,
November 1998
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