University of Connecticut |
Angelique V. Nixon is an Assistant Professor in Residence in the University of Connecticut’s Women’s Studies Program. She recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Africana Studies at New York University, where she engaged in advanced research on migrations and immigrations. Her research and teaching areas include Caribbean and postcolonial studies, African diaspora literatures, postcolonial and feminist theories, gender & sexuality studies, and transnational migrations. She earned her Ph.D. in English and graduate certification in women’s and gender research from the University of Florida in 2008. Currently, she is completing a scholarly book manuscript titled “Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Mobility in Caribbean Literature and Culture,” which examines the material effects of tourism and neocolonialism on Caribbean culture and identity. Her project interrogates the cultural and sexual politics of tourism through a study of migratory artifacts. Her scholarly work has been published in SAIL: Studies in American Indian Literatures, Lucayos (Caribbean Journal of Literature, Culture, & Arts), and forthcoming the 2009 book collection The Caribbean Women Writer as Scholar. She is also a creative writer, and her poetry has appeared in Julie Mango, Proud Flesh, Journal of Caribbean Literatures, and Black Renaissance Noire. Dr. Nixon’s teaching and pedagogy are a reflection of her deep commitment to grassroots organizing. She has worked with a number of organizations, including Critical Resistance in Gainesville Florida, The Audre Lorde Project in Brooklyn, and the AIDS Service Center in New York City. Angelique is also serving on Caribbean Regional Board of the International Resource Network at CUNY’s Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies. Also, she has presented her work in a variety of venues, from academic conferences to community workshops, on many subjects including “Caribbean Sexuality,” “Poverty in the Caribbean,” “Community Building and Activism,” “Gender, Race, and the Prison Industrial Complex,” and “Black LGBTQ Identities” among others. Most recently, she organized a series of community workshops on “Sisterhood” and “Storytelling,” and a three-day Caribbean Sexualities Gathering in Kingston, Jamaica. Dr. Nixon is deeply committed to the ongoing struggle for social justice, gender and sexual equality, and Black liberation; she works on multiple levels – teaching, writing, and community work – to envision radical change. She is also the author of the blog "conscious vibration" - http://consciousvibration.blogspot.com/.
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