Overview
Dominique M. Joe is a PhD candidate in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University. Her research interests include Black women’s writing, African Diasporic Literature, African American and Caribbean literature, as well as comics studies. Her dissertation, titled Articulations of Universality in Black Feminist Thought, focuses on a constellatory assemblage of Black women writers/artists/theorists from Nikki Giovanni to Alma W. Thomas. Her project aims to trace what she calls a preoccupation with “material universality” in Black women’s literature and art. Bringing together Black feminist theory and decoloniality, she hopes to reveal an alternative set of ideas about what it means to be human. Her article “A Year and a Day: The Uneasy Aliveness of Claudia Jones’s Poetry” was most recently published in MaComère: Journal of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars (May/June 2024 issue).
Research Focus
- Black Women's Writing
- African American Literature
- 20th and 21st Century Literature
- Comic Studies