DEPARTMENT OF BLACK STUDIES

Research Interests:

Black Feminist Theory, Black Women's Literature, Poetry and Visual Culture, Black Maternity, Ambivalence and Maternal Absence, Affect Studies, Queer Theory, Coloniality of Gender and Race, Black Humanism(s), and Reproductive Politics

Publications:

Merritt, Candice J. “’Babies Havin’ Babies’: Examining Visual Representations of Teenage Pregnancy.” Difficult Dialogues about Twenty-First Century Girls. Ed. Donna M. Johnson & Alice E. Ginsberg. New York, NY: SUNY Press, 2015. 223-248. 

Select Fellowships and Awards:

(2018) Mellon Interdisciplinary Cluster Fellowship in Critical Theory  
(2018) National Women's Studies Association Travel Grant