LBVWP Collective
curriculum vitae
(SELECT LBVWP MEMBER PUBLICATIONS & FELLOWSHIPS)
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BOOKS

Kathryn Sophia Belle, Ph.D.
  • Beauvoir and Belle: A Black Feminist Critique of The Second Sex. (Forthcoming, Oxford University Press, 2023)
 
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)

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)

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

Ruthanne Soohee Crapo Kim, Ph.D.
  • “Creolizing Place, Origin, and Relation: The Opaque Waters between Glissant and Irigaray.” Hypatia (2022)
  • “Disidentification in Irigaray and Anzaldúa: Nepantla and Sexuate Politics,” Sophia, special issue (2022)
  • “Creolizing an Ethics of Ambiguity: Opacity and the Veil.” The CLR James Journal. (2022)
  • “Kinning and Kincraft: a Feminist, Decolonial Analysis of Kinship.” Philosophy Compass. (forthcoming 2023)
  • “Returning to the Point of Entanglement: Sexual Difference and Creolization,” Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy (2021)
 
BOOK CHAPTERS

Wesley N. Barker, Ph.D.
  • “An Ethic of Lips: Beyond the Wounding of Desire” in Ruthanne Crapo Kim, Yvette Russell, and Brenda Sharp, eds. Horizons of Difference: Rethinking Space, Place and Identity with Irigaray (SUNY 2022)
 
Kathryn Sophia Belle, Ph.D.
  • “‘Being Together Was Like Medicine’: Reflections on the Power and Pleasure of Black Women Writing Groups” for Tengo Sed: Thirsty for Global Works on Voice, Identity, and Personhood, edited by Natasha Gordon-Chipembere and Yndia Lorick-Wilmot (Accepted 2021)
  • “Maria Stewart (August 20, 1829 – August 19, 1834)” in 400 Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, edited by 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, edited by Mary C. Rawlinson and James Sares. New York: Columbia University Press (In Press 2023)
  • “Artificial Life, Biomimcry, and Autopoiesis: Irigaray with Ecological Feminism and Deep Ecology.” Horizons of Difference: Rethinking Space, Place, and Identity with Irigaray, edited by Ruthanne Crapo Kim, Yvette Russell, and Brenda Sharp. Albany, NY: SUNY Press (2022)
 
FELLOWSHIPS

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

​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.
  • Interview by Edward O’Byrn, “Simone de Beauvoir, Analogy, Intersectionality, and Expanding Philosophy: An Interview with Kathryn Sophia Belle by Edward O’Byrn” in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (forthcoming)
  • Interview by Edward O’Byrn, “Anti-Racism and Existential Philosophy: An Interview with Kathryn Sophia Belle by Edward O’Byrn” in Sartre Studies International (Volume 27, Issue 2, Winter 2021, pages 1-9)
  • Interview by A. Shaid Stover, Editor for Brotherwise Dispatch: Interviews, and Exclusives (Theory, Critique, Aesthetics), “The Brotherwise Dispatch vs. Kathryn Sophia Belle” [Interview on Hannah Arendt and the Negro Question](Available online: https://brotherwiseinterviewsexclusives.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-brotherwise-dispatch-vs-kathryn.html?m=1) (2021)
  • Interview by Roberto Sirvent, Editor for Black Agenda Report, BAR Book Forum, “Kathryn Sophia Belle’s Hannah Arendt and the Negro Question” (Available online: https://www.blackagendareport.com/bar-book-forum-kathryn-sophia-belles-hannah-arendt-and-negro-question) (2021)