Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:33:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 /faculty-experts/delali-kumavie/ Tue, 22 Feb 2022 18:46:37 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=173831 Delali Kumavie earned her doctoral degree in English from Northwestern University in 2020. Prior to coming to Syracuse, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Mahindra Humanities Institute at Harvard University, and a predoctoral fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. Professor Kumavie’s teaching and research interests are situated at the intersection of Global Black Literature, Studies in Science and Technology, Global Migration, and Black Ecologies. Her current book project, Aerial Geographies: Mapping Aviation in Global Black Literature, analyzes how the sites of air travel—air space, the technology of the airplane, and the infrastructure of the airport—construct, reimagine, and disrupt the figuration of blackness in the world. It argues that the air, the airplane, and the airport are crucial sites for examining not only the contours of Black travel and mobility but also Black life and death. Reading beyond the silos of national boundaries, the book shows that air travel, aviation technologies, and infrastructure must be viewed within the instantiation and persistence of global racial structures.

]]> /faculty-experts/ethan-madarieta/ Tue, 22 Feb 2022 18:29:17 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=173828 Ethan Madarieta euskal-amerikarra da. He earned his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with a graduate Minor in Latina/o Studies and a Certificate in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2020. Professor Madarieta’s research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of Latin American, Latine/x, Black, and Indigenous studies with specializations in Latin American, Latine/x, and Pan-American Indigenous theory and literatures. His research and teaching engage memory studies, queer and trans* studies, Latine/x, Black, and Indigenous studies, and critical race and ethnicity studies. His current book project, tentatively titled The Body is (Not) the Land: Memory, Translation, and the Territorial Aporia, thinks through conceptions of sovereignty, Indigenous presence, and precedence in the literatures and political performances (such as the ongoing hunger strikes) of Mapuche Indigenous peoples of Wallmapu [Chile and Argentina]. Through these sites, the book considers how and when Indigenous bodies and land intersect, and in what ways state and Indigenous conceptions of the body and land are distinct and overlapping. The Body Is (Not) the Land attends to the ontoepistemological underpinnings of Indigenous territorial precedence as body-territorial relation and pursues the possibilities of restitution beyond juridical means.

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