LBVWP Collective
curriculum vitae
(SELECT LA BELLE VIEW WRITERS MEMBER PUBLICATIONS & FELLOWSHIPS)
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BOOKS

Wesley N. Barker, Ph.D.
  • Desire Beyond Identity: Irigaray and the Ethics of Embodiment. (SUNY Press, 2025)

Kathryn Sophia Belle, Ph.D.
  • Beauvoir and Belle: A Black Feminist Critique of The Second Sex. (Oxford University Press, 2024)
  • Hannah Arendt et la question noire. (Paris: Éditions Kimé, 2023). French Edition with new preface by author.  Translated from English by philosopher Benoît Basse.
 
Jasmine Nicole Cobb, Ph.D.
  • New Growth: The Art and Texture of Black Hair (Duke University Press, 2022)
 
Charity C. Elder
  • Power: The Rise of Black Women in America—How Black Women Embody the American Dream, Defy Oppression, and Win (Simon and Schuster, 2022).

Myrriah Gómez, Ph.D.
  • Nuclear Nuevo México: Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos (University of Arizona Press, 2022)
 
Natasha Gordon-Chipembere, Ph.D.
  • Finding La Negrita (Jaded Ibi Press, 2022)

Mary Frances Phillips, Ph.D.
  • Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Erika Huggins (New York University Press, 2025)

Althea Rani Sircar, Ph.D.
  •  2025 American Council of Learned Societies' (administered by Pomona College) Arnold L. and Lois S. Graves Award in the Humanities
  • 2025-2026 Institute for Citizens & Scholars' Mellon Emerging Faculty Leader Award 

Ruthanne Soohee Crapo Kim, Ph.D.
  • Horizons of Difference: Rethinking Space, Place, and Identity with Irigaray, Eds. Kim, Ruthanne Crapo, Russell, Yvette, and Brenda Sharp (SUNY Press, 2022)
  • Time to Manifest: The Submarine Philosophy of Édouard Glissant. University of Virginia Press (Under review, 2022)
 
JOURNAL ARTICLES 

Wesley N. Barker, Ph.D.
  • “Thresholds of Touch: Revisiting the Mat(t)er of the Body in the Work of Luce Irigaray.” Journal of Body and Religion Vol. 4., No. 1 (2020)

Kathryn Sophia Belle, Ph.D.
  • “Interlocking, Intersecting, and Intermeshing: Critical Engagements with Black and Latina Feminist Paradigms of Identity and Oppression” in Critical Philosophy of Race, Vol. 8, Nos 1-2, pages 165-198. (2020)

N. Fadeke Castor, Ph.D.
  • "Ifá/Orisha Digital Counterpublics." The Black Scholar 52(3): 17–29 (special issue “Black Religions in the Digital Age” edited by Margarita Guillory) (2022)
  • "Subjectivity: Offerings from African Diasporic Religious Ethnography." Fieldwork in Religion 17(1): 72–83 (special issue “Critical Terms for the Ethnography of Religion” edited by Brendan Jamal Thornton and Eric Hoenes) (2022)
  • "Our Commitments to Those Who Have Come Before: Reflections on an African Diasporic Spiritual Citizenship." Tarka 6: 24-30 (special issue “On Spiritual Citizenship” edited by Stephanie Corigliano, 2022)

Maria-Elena Gaitan
  • Maylei Blackwell: The UCLA Pretendian Shape-Shifting for Power (Substack, 2024) 

Naomi Greyser, Ph.D.
  • “Un/Blocked: Writing, Race and Gender in the American Academy” in American Quarterly (2023)

Ruthanne Soohee Crapo Kim, Ph.D.
  • “Creolizing Place, Origin, and Relation: The Opaque Waters between Glissant and Irigaray” in Hypatia (2022)
  • “Disidentification in Irigaray and Anzaldúa: Nepantla and Sexuate Politics” in Sophia, special issue (2022)
  • “Creolizing an Ethics of Ambiguity: Opacity and the Veil” in The CLR James Journal. (2022)
  • “A Feminist and Decolonial Approach to Kinship: An Ambiguous and Ambivalent Account” in Philosophy Compass. (2024)
  • “Returning to the Point of Entanglement: Sexual Difference and Creolization” in Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy (2021)
 
BOOK CHAPTERS

Wesley N. Barker, Ph.D.
  • “An Ethic of Lips: Beyond the Wounding of Desire” in Horizons of Difference: Rethinking Space, Place and Identity with Irigaray, eds. Ruthanne Crapo Kim, Yvette Russell, and Brenda Sharp (SUNY Press, 2022)
 
Kathryn Sophia Belle, Ph.D.
  • “Maria Stewart (August 20, 1829 – August 19, 1834)” in 400 Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, eds. Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain (Random House, 2021)

Ruthanne Soohee Crapo Kim, Ph.D.
  • “Life itself and Sexual Difference: Nature and Culture.” In What is Sexual Difference: Thinking with Irigaray, eds. Mary C. Rawlinson and James Sares (Columbia University Press, 2023)
  • “Artificial Life, Biomimcry, and Autopoiesis: Irigaray with Ecological Feminism and Deep Ecology.” Horizons of Difference: Rethinking Space, Place, and Identity with Irigaray, eds. Ruthanne Crapo Kim, Yvette Russell, and Brenda Sharp (SUNY Press, 2022)
 
OP-EDS
Jasmine Nicole Cobb, Ph.D.

FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, HONORS

Kathryn Sophia Belle, Ph.D.
  • The New Institute Fellowship, Hamburg, Germany (2024)

Jasmine Nicole Cobb, Ph.D.
  • Named chair, Earl D. McLean Jr. Professor of African and African American Studies
  • ​Induction into Bass Society of Fellows (2025)
  • 2025-2026 Fellow with The National Humanities Center

Nathifa Greene, Ph.D.
  • Weeksville Heritage Center Freedom Fellow (2021)

​Althea Rani Sircar, Ph.D.
  • American Council of Learned Societies' (administered by Pomona College) Arnold L. and Lois S. Graves Award in the Humanities (2025)
  • Institute for Citizens & Scholars' Mellon Emerging Faculty Leader Award (2025-2026)

Ruthanne Soohee Crapo Kim, Ph.D.
  • Mellon Just Transformations Postdoctoral Fellow. Department of Philosophy, The Pennsylvania State University (2021 – 2022)
  • Fulbright Scholar Award Alternate. “Thinking Like an Island: Social Data on Religious Diversity and Gender Equality in Mauritius to Increase Renewable Energy” (2021)
 
INTERVIEWS

Kathryn Sophia Belle, Ph.D.
Jasmine Nicole Cobb, Ph.D.
Instagram Live Conversations with La Belle Vie Writers Authors

TESTIMONIALS:

  • I came to La Belle Vie Writing Group because I was seeking a positive community of women that would be a professional support. I had been searching for this kind of community for years and it was a blessing to be invited to join this one. It has truly been life changing!
  • This group has changed my relationship to writing!
  • This is the most positive relationship I have ever had to my writing!
  • This group has given me more confidence in my writing and that has also extended to other areas of my life.
  • This is the most consistent I have ever been in my writing.
  • I usually do not try to keep writing when I teach, but this group has allowed me to continue to write and make significant progress on projects in addition to my teaching.
  • I broke up with my other writing groups because it does not give me everything that this writing group offers.
  • La Belle Vie Writing Group got me through my entire write up the year, all the way to the final submission of thesis revisions.
  • Helped get me over my fear of writing.
  • [I had] the realisation that I too am a writer, and that voice needs to be heard!
  • The support and encouragement have helped me write during an incredibly difficult time. 
  • Having a writing tribe has made this journey, not only less lonely, but adventurous, fun, and exciting.
  • The group is about so much more than writing. We share milestones, we support each other, we cheer each other on. It is about community. The additional transformation or secondary benefits have been about feeling grounded and having a sense of belonging amidst constant change.
  • Having role models, seeing and experiencing the different ways in which other women do their work and live their best lives!
  • Personally, isolation, lack of support and encouragement, particularly from other women doing the same work would have been the consequences or costs of not being a part of LBVWG. 
  • The tribe is invaluable!!!!!!!!!
  • I needed to get out of my head and write ( that was a huge challenge for me!)
  • Thank you for the support, the encouragement, the love, the community and the banter!!!
  • To you personally, thank you for being you (for modelling doing it all from a space of love and passion), for the confidence and the trust.
  • I have become more disciplined with maintaining a regular writing ritual
  • I have successfully written and submitted three articles/book chapters.
  • I have successfully written a book proposal and received a contract from a top university press.
  • I have received valuable mentoring on how to navigate academia as a woman of color.
  • Received guidance on writing for a major grant and have made it to the final round.
  • I was able to successfully negotiate a new faculty contract.
  • I have developed new professional goals as a result of feedback from this group.
  • This group has been invaluable for support on a professional and personal level. I am deeply inspired by the women in this group each. The lessons I have learned her have changed how I show up each day for myself and others!
  • I have been able to think more productively about assessing my own personal needs and prioritizing those needs.
  • This group has inspired me to make space for my spiritual journey.
  • I have made new friendships.
  • I have learned about new resources and other people who are also inspiring my journey along the way.
  • I gained confidence along the way! I finished my PhD later in life (40s). I did not obtain a tenure track position until I was 49 years old-- a few weeks before my 50th birthday. I had a lot of baggage because of this and wondered if I could do this. The group helped me find my confidence and realized my potential. My age does not have to hold me back or mean that I have less value here in this space. I still have lots to contribute. 
  • Had I not been part of this group I do not think I would have been as successful navigating academia. I do not have good mentorship or role models here on campus. 
  • I would likely have not pursued the book proposal [without LBVW].
  • I would have continued binge writing and then feeling bad about why it was not productive. I would not have established a daily writing habit. 
  • Writing in solitude means I would have written less. I have now learned the value of writing in community. I cannot overstate this! Writing in community is much better than trying to go it alone. This is something they do not teach you in graduate school. 
  • I would not have built this incredible new network had I not participated in this writing group.