Articles and Book Chapters
A History of Black Diasporic Artists in Scandinavia
Routledge Companion to African Diasporic Art History. Ed. Edward Chambers (London and New York: Routledge) (forthcoming)
Oh Yeah! Yes! Oh Yeah!: Theaster Gates’ A Clay Sermon
Theaster Gates: A Clay Sermon (Whitechapel Gallery, 2022)
Introduction: Let’s Talk About Race
With Nana Osei-Kofi. I Talk About It all the Time by Camara Lundestad Joof, translated from the Norwegian by Olivia Gunn. University of Wisconsin Press, 2024.
Pink in Hip-Hop
Fresh, Fly, and Fabulous: Fifty Years of Hip-Hop Style catalog (Rizzoli International, 2023) Co-authored with Elena Romero.
Race, Melancholia, Midsommar
Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, Horror Grows Up? Special issue ed. Briefel, Lowenstein, and Middleton (44:3, Fall 2022).
Once Upon a Time in Nigeria…
On Orange Culture. Africa Fashion catalog (Victoria & Albert Museum, 2022).
Asynchronous: Black TimeTheory & Event, Keywords for 2020 Symposium
Theory & Event, Keywords for 2020 Symposium. Eds. Sarah Haley and Samantha Pinto (25: 1, January 2022).
The Grain of her Voice: Nina Simone, Josette Bushell-Mingo and the Intersections between Art, Politics and Race
PARSE (11: Summer 2020), special issue on Intersectional Engagement in Politics and Arts. With Anna Adeniji, Barbara Asante, and Anna Lundberg.
On Having Your Cake and Eating It Too: Black (Diasporic/Nordic) Arts
Social Text: Periscope “Shady Convivialities: On Tavia N’yongo’s Afrofabulations (January 28, 2020).
Introduction: (Re): Zora Neale Hurston, Now and Again
With Tami Navarro. Undiminished Blackness: Zora Neale Hurston as Theory and Practice. The Scholar & Feminist Online, 16:2 (2020). Eds. Monica L. Miller and Tami Navarro.
Come Through, Ms. Turner…Come Through
Amongst Friends: Photographs of Lana Turner by Dario Calmese, (projects + gallery, 2018)
Figuring Blackness In A Place Without Race: Sweden, Recently
ELH (English Literary History) 84:2 (2017) Proceedings of The English Institute, Fall 2015, on the theme of “Figure.”
Pantomime: Global Modernism’s Harlequinade
A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism. Eds. Rebecca Walkowitz and Eric Hayot. Columbia University Press, 2016.
Black, Queer, Dandy: ‘the Beauty Without Whom We Cannot Seem to Live’
NKA: A Journal of Contemporary African Art, 38-39 (Fall 2016, special issue on Black Portraiture).
‘Joy, Creation, Being’: On Dandy Lion (Re) Articulating Black Masculinity
Photoworks Annual/Brighton Photo Biennale 23: Self-Styled catalog (Brighton, UK: Photoworks, 2016)
All Hail the Q.U.E.E.N.: Janelle Monáe and a Tale of the Tux
NKA: A Journal of Contemporary African Art 37 (Fall 2015, special issue on Black Fashion: Art, Pleasure, Politics).
Introduction: Singing a Black Girl’s Song at Barnard and Beyond
With Kim F. Hall. The Worlds of Ntozake Shange double issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online, 12.3-13.1 (Summer/Fall 2014). Eds. Kim F. Hall, Monica L. Miller, and Yvette Christiansë.
“Fresh-Dressed Like a Million Bucks”: Hip Hop Dandyism
Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion exhibition catalog, Rhode Island School of Design Museum/Yale University Press (2013)
An Interview with Iké Udé: Mining the Opposition…is my Great Refusal
Iké Udé: Style and Sympathies: New Photographic Works (Leila Heller Gallery, 2013)
August 11, 1955: “The self-respect of my people”
The New Literary History of America. Eds. Werner Sollors and Greil Marcus. Harvard University Press, 2009.