In celebration of Women’s History Month and its theme of “Women Who Tell Our Stories,” NYU Liberal Studies invites you to join Dr. Leo Douglas at a screening and panel discussion for the launch of his documentary short, Reimagining Queen Nanny of the Maroons. This event features LS professor Jacqueline Bishop, Dr. Marcia Douglas, Dr. Tao Leigh Goffe, and Dr. Thera Edwards.
The documentary celebrates the self-determination, eco-spirituality and Afro-Indigenous retentions of the formerly enslaved peoples of Jamaica and the diaspora. This event is open to the public.
This event is co-sponsored by Jamaica Conservation and Development Trust (JCDT); Institute of Jamaica, Image by Ultra; The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at NYU (CLACS); the Liberal Studies CSI (Cultural and Social Identities), SHE (Sustainability, Health, and the Environment) and Science Concentrations.
This Zoom Webinar event is free and open to the public. Register Here.
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Prof. Jacqueline Bishop is the author, most recently of Patchwork: Essays and Interviews on Caribbean Visual Culture (Intellect Books, 2023). In addition to being a scholar she is also a creative writer and visual artist and has had residences at la Maison Dora Maar, among others. Notable visual art works include the ceramic projects, History at The Dinner Table (acquired by the Fitzwilliam’s Museum) and The Market Woman’s Story exhibited by the Paul Mellon Center. In 2016 she received the Bocas Award for Caribbean Writing, Non Fiction for her volume The Gymnast & Other Positions.
Dr. Marcia Douglas is the author of novels, The Marvellous Equations of the Dread, Madam Fate and Notes from a Writer’s Book of Cures and Spells as well as a poetry collection, Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom. Her fiction, essays, reviews and interviews have appeared in The New York Review of Books, Bomb Magazine, World Literature Today and in anthologies such as Kingston Noir, Jubilation: 50 Years of Jamaican Poetry Since Independence, Queen’s Case: Jamaican Literature, and more. Her honors include a Creative Capital Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a U.K. Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Professor Douglas teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Dr. Tao Leigh Goffe is an assistant professor of literary theory and cultural history. She has a joint appointment between the Department of Africana Studies and Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University. She is also a writer and a DJ specializing in the narratives that emerge from histories of imperialism, migration, and globalization.
She received her Bachelor’s degree in English from Princeton University in 2009 and PhD in American Studies from Yale University in 2015. She has held research positions at Princeton University, New York University, and Leiden University in the Netherlands.
At the intersections of the environmental humanities and science and technology studies, her interdisciplinary research and practice examines the unfolding relationship between technology, the senses, memory, and nature. DJ’ing is an important part of her pedagogy and research. Film production, sound editing, digital cartography, and oral history are also integral to her praxis. Her writing has been published in Small Axe, Amerasia Journal, and Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas.
She is at work on a book on the ecological poetics and entanglements of the Caribbean plantation. Her second project is a manifesto on digital technology, black feminist praxis and DJ culture called Pon De Replay.
Dr. Thera Edwards is Map Curator and Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Geology at The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus in Jamaica. Her interdisciplinary research includes landscape change and history , geomorphology, climate change responses, vegetation ecology and archaeology. Historical maps, aerial photographs, satellite imagery and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are key components of her research and analyses. In the past 20 years, her work has focused on environmental management and sustainable development, with particular emphasis on biodiversity, forestry, watersheds, agriculture and protected areas management.
Thera has written and co-authored technical reports and papers for several development agencies as well as for presentation at conferences and symposia. In 2016, she co-edited the volume Global Change and the Caribbean: Adaptation and Resilience along with David Barker, Duncan McGregor, and Kevon Rhiney.
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