Josephs, Kelly

Phone: 718-262-2469
Office Location: AC-2A02
kjosephs@york.cuny.edu
http://www.smallaxe.net/sxsalon

Education:

Degree	Institution	Field	Dates
PhD	Rutgers University	Literature	2006
MA	Florida International University	Literature	2001

Areas of Expertise:

Anglophone Caribbean Literature
Postcolonial Literature and Theory
Literatures of the African Diaspora

Articles in Field Of Expertise:

Josephs, Kelly Baker. "Dreams, Delirium, and Decolonization in Derek Walcott’s Dream on Monkey Mountain." Small Axe. 32 July 2010: 1-16.

Josephs, Kelly Baker. "Dissonant Desires: The Queer Politics of a Jamaican Accent." Mosaic. 42.2 June 2009: 158-170.

Josephs, Kelly Baker. "Telling Ancient Narratives with New Media: The Art of Christian Usera." Voces del Caribe. 1.1 Spring 2009: 23-39.

Josephs, Kelly Baker. "Ventriloquising the Caribbean: Interview with Staceyann Chin." Jamaica Journal. 30.3 Spring 2009: 28.33.

Josephs, Kelly Baker. "Versions of X/Self: Kamau Brathwaite’s Caribbean Discourse." Anthurium. 1.1 2003: .

Josephs, Kelly Baker. "Edward Brathwaite." Literary Encyclopedia. March 2009: .

Josephs, Kelly Baker. "Toi Derricotte." The African American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press. 2008: .

Non Refereed Proceedings in Field Of Expertise:

Josephs, Kelly Baker. "Introductions." sx salon. 1-7 November 2009-December 2011: .

Chapters in Field Of Expertise:

Josephs, Kelly Baker. "The Necessity for Madness: Negotiating Nation in Sylvia Wynter’s The Hills of Hebron." The Caribbean Women Writer as Scholar. Eds. Carole Boyce Davies and Keshia Abraham. Coconut Creek, Fl: Caribbean Studies Press. 2009: 179-204.

Josephs, Kelly Baker. ""Claiming an Identity They Taught Me to Despise" and "Michelle Cliff"." The Facts on File Companion to World Poetry: 1900 to the Present. 2008: 109-112.

Reviews in Field Of Expertise:

""What She Said" (Review of Conversations with Paule Marshall)" November 2011: .

"“Head of the Class” (Review of You Don’t Play With Revolution: The Montreal Lectures)" July 2010: .

"“Prodigal Daughter” (Review of The Other Side of Paradise, by Staceyann Chin) Caribbean Review of Books" May 2009: 18-19.

""All in the Family” (Review of Our Caribbean, Ed. Thomas Glave) Caribbean Review of Books" November 2008: 18-19.

"“Going Home to Teach” (by Anthony Winkler) Caribbean Journal of Education" September 2008 (Vol 30.2): 424-428.

"“The Rainmaker’s Mistake” (by Erna Brodber) Callaloo" Summer 2008 (Vol 31.3): 938-941.

 

Presented Papers, Lectures, and Exhibitions and Performances:

" Beyond Geography, Past Time: Sketching a Caribbean Cosmology " April 2011: Symposium: What is Caribbean Studies, Yale University.

" SHORT TALK: Jane Bryce and Kelly Josephs on Caribbean literary journals " April 2011: The Bocas Lit Fest, Trinidad.

" ‘Communal Purgation’?: Religion, Poverty and Mob Violence in Brother Man and The Children of Sisyphus " May 2010: Caribbean Studies Association Annual Conference, Barbados.

" Forgetting to Forget: Soucouyant and the Topography of the Migrant’s Mind " May 2010: 29th Annual West Indian Literature Conference, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus.

" Representing the Spirit of Violence and the Violence of Spirit in Andrew Salkey’s A Quality of Violence " April 2010: “Let the Spirit Speak” conference, City College/CUNY.

" Conversation with Che Usera " April 2010: MARASSA 2010 (A series of events organized by Kamau Brathwaite), New York University.

" Madness and Migration in the New Millennia " April 2010: Center for Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University.

" Kamau Brathwaite and the Development of a Caribbean Aesthetic from Elsewhere " March 2010: The National Black Writers’ Conference, Medgar Evers College/CUNY.

" Nation and Neuroses: Paule Marshall's 'Mad Mis-Merle' and the Ramifications of Representation " March 2009: Center for Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University.

" Displaced Subjects, Displacing Sexuality: The Outsider as Corrupting Influence in the Caribbean " May 2008: CSA Annual Convention, New York University.

" Afrofuturism From a Caribbean Past: The Local Orientation of a Black World Vision " April 2008: Theorizing Blackness Conference, CUNY Graduate Center.

" Religious Exchange: Anti-colonial Appropriations of God " february 2008: Provost Lecture Series, York College/CUNY.

" Troubling Troubled Waters: Makeda Silvera’s Queering of the Maternal Romance " April 2007: CEA Annual Conference, New Orleans.

" Manias and Messiahs: The Madness of Miguel Street " March 2006: ACLA Annual Convention, Princeton University.

Professional Honors, Prizes, Fellowships:

Mellon Seminar Fellowship, Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center - "Freedom": 2011-12.

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University: 2008-09.

Faculty Fellowship Publication Program Fellow, CUNY: Spring 2008.

Seminar Fellowship – “Archaeologies of Black Memory” University of Miami: Summer 2007.

Grants-In-Aid:

Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center, Funded Seminar, “Caribbean Epistemologies”. Fall 2010 to present: .

PSC-CUNY Grant, Research Foundation of CUNY, Funding to complete revisions on book manuscript, "Disturbers of the Peace". 2011-2012: .

Diversity Projects Development Fund Grant, CUNY, Funding to expand discussion forum in sx salon: a small axe literary platform. Spring 2011: .

PSC-CUNY Grant, Research Foundation of CUNY, Funding to visit the Derek Walcott archive in Trinidad, WI. 2010-11: .

Diversity Projects Development Fund Grant, CUNY, SX Salon (Funding to support building an online Caribbean journal). Spring 2010: .

PSC-CUNY Grant, Research Foundation of CUNY, Funding to visit the V. S. Naipaul archive in Tulsa, OK. Spring 2008-09: .

Other Professional Activities and Public Service:

Editor, sx salon: a small axe literary platform: Spring 2010 - Present.

Managing Editor, Small Axe: Fall 2007 - Summer 2012.

Editorial Advisory Board member, Voces del Caribe: Spring 2007 - Present.

Reviewer, 1) Signs; 2) European Journal of Women’s Studies: .