Writing

PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP & ARTS WRITING

• Crosscut, Black Arts Legacies, 2022 – 2023
• Various posts for the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies blog, Ongoing
• “The Boundless Light of Black Children: Barbara Earl Thomas’s ‘Geographies of Innocence’ at Seattle Art Museum,” Variable West, 16 November 2021.
• “The Kinsey Collection: Art, Archive, and History of the Black American Experience,” South Seattle Emerald, 9 October 2021.
• “Debuting Juneteenth, ‘Unmute The Voices’ Highlights Composers and Musicians of Color,” South Seattle Emerald, 18 June 2021.
• “Staging Black Memories, Singing with Ghosts,” South Seattle Emerald, 29 May 2021.
• “What the Emerald Means to Me: Illumination,” South Seattle Emerald, 27 April 2021.
• “Sensing Out of Numbness: A Conversation with Shin Yu Pai,” South Seattle Emerald, 23 April 2021
• “Jacob Lawrence Illuminates the American Struggle,” Hyperallergic, 5 April 2021
• “Ijeoma Oluo on the Pervasive Impact of White Mediocrity,” Literary Hub, 1 March 2021
• “Thinking With” on Abstractions of Black Citizenship Series for ASAP/J Online
  • “Online Curating During 2020,” 11 February 2021 (author)
  • “Interview with Molly Mac and Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud,”18 February 2021 (in conversation with Ken Allan)
  • “Student Conversations,” 25 February 2021 (in conversation with Anna Iwasaki, Meilani Mandery, Ashley Marshall, and Ellen McGivern)
  • “The Artists,” 5 March 2021 (author)
• “‘Black and Center’ Holiday Gift & Giving Guide!,” South Seattle Emerald, 18 December 2020
• “‘Black and Center’ — Color, Collaboration, and Care,” South Seattle Emerald, 2 December 2020
• “Waking Up to Black Art: Wa Na Wari, Murals, and Art at Home,” A Year in Black Art, The Black Embodiments Studio, October 2020
• “‘Black and Center’: Archiving Indigenous and Black Futures,” South Seattle Emerald, 23 October 2020
• “‘Black and Center’: Moving with Art in Seattle,” South Seattle Emerald, 17 September 2020
• “Melted Snow on Virtual Stages,” (in conversation with Autumn Knight), Howlround, 26 August 2020
• “Tschabalala Self: Out of Body,” Art Forum, January 2020
• “Xenobia Bailey,” Wa Na Wari Gallery Guide, August 2019
• “To Salvage an Archive,” (in conversation with Deanna Bowen), Canadian Art Review, 6 June 2019
• “Tschabalala Self’s Avatars of Black Womanhood,” Hyperallergic, 4 March 2019
• “Touring the Divided City,” The Common Reader, 11 November 2016
• Co-Founder and Editor, The Arts Politic, 2009 – 2010

ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP — EDITED BOOK

Makeshift Chicago Stages: A Century of Theater and Performance edited by Megan E. Geigner, Stuart J. Hecht, and Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2021.

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS — ARTICLES & REVIEWS

“Sighting Segregation Black aesthetics and the materiality of art in St. Louis and Ferguson,” in The Material World of Modern Segregation edited by Iver Bernstein and Heidi Kolk, 2022.

A book review of Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity by Dorinne K. Kondo. In TDR: The Drama Review 64.3 (2020): 179-181.

“Space: Postdramatic Geography in Post-collapse Seattle,” in Postdramatic Theatre and Form. Edited by Michael Shane Boyle, Matt Cornish, and Brandon Woolf. London: Bloomsbury, 2019.

A book review of Drop Dead: Performance in Crisis, 1970s New York by Hillary Miller. In Modern Drama 61.1 (Spring 2018): 118-120.

“An uncharted persistence: Alternative minoritarian theater in Chicago,” in Theater and Cultural Politics for a New World, An Anthology. Edited by Chinua Thelwell. London and New York: Routledge, 2017.

“Right to the Artistic City: Performing Engagements Beyond Austerity in Post-Collapse Chicago” in the French Review of American Studies special issue Reclaiming the Right to the City in the American Metropolis. French Review of American Studies 148 (2016): 84-97.

“Brooklyn’s Experimental Frontiers: A Performance Geography.” TDR: The Drama Review 58:3 (August 2014): 97-123.

“‘What a Body Can do’: A praxis session by Ben Spatz, Zihan Loo, Christine Germain, Donia Mounsef, Ira Murfin, Justin Zullo & Krista DeNio.” Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts. 19:3 (August 2014): 150-151.

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“Beyond Capitalist Value: Experimental persistence in the austere city.” Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts 18: 2 (June 2013): 80-91.

“Black love? Black love!: All Aboard the presence of punk in Seattle’s NighTraiN.” Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory 22: 2-3 (November 2012): 315-323.