Wesleyan University

Chloé Samala Faux

Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow of Anthropology

Chloé Samala Faux  is a cultural anthropologist working across traditions of black studies, gender and sexuality studies, political economy, and  psychoanalysis.  Her research interrogates the multifaceted tradition of building various forms of universality on the problematized status and indeed the endlessly voided but always assumed function of black femininity and black maternity.  Her book man…

Tyrone S. Palmer

Assistant Professor of English

Tyrone S. Palmer's teaching and research concerns Black critical thought, poetics, and negativity. His current book manuscript, “Felt Antagonisms: Blackness, Negativity, and the Grammars of Affect,” explores how key Black literary  texts theorize the failures of a universalist conception of affect to account for the grammars of feeling that emerge from the singularity of Blackness. Palmer’s schola…

Kevin Dwight Ball

Assistant Professor of Film Studies

Kevin Ball is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research interests include digital media, film studies, and black studies. His essays on music videos have appeared in Film Criticism, where he is a member of the editorial board. His work has also appeared in Transformative Works and Cultures, liquid blackness, ASAP/J, and Global Hip Hop Studies (forthcoming). His videographic work is forthcoming i…

Marina Bilbija

Assistant Professor of English

Marina Bilbija is a scholar of nineteenth and twentieth century Afro-diasporic literary and print culture whose research bridges the concerns of African American, Black British, colonial Nigerian and Ghanaian literary history with those of Global Anglophone studies, and Book History. She is the author ofThe Black Sojourner Press: Experiments in Black Periodical Culture Between Emancipation and Dec…