Cija Jefferson reflects on her experiences in an MFA program, craft, community, and revision. Her MFA project, Sonic Memories and Other Essays, is her first book, in which nine essays capture different stages of the writer as she frames sounds and silences to capture adulthood, grief, loss, and time.
"To Think About Sex Work Differently, We Need to Think About Sex Differently" (with Dr. Juana María Rodríguez)
Art Criticism and the Black Imagination (with Erica N. Cardwell)
Afropessimism and Writing Shattered (with Dr. Matthieu Chapman)
Essaying ‘The Loneliness Files” (with Athena Dixon)
'To Be An Adult Immigrant is to Lead a Life with 4 Senses, Instead of 5' (with Nishanth Injam)
Reading Trauma in Colonialism and Being Misread (with Dr. Noreen Masud)
Resistance and 'Radical Intimacy' (with Sophie K. Rosa)
The Making of a 'Modern' Thailand (with Mai Nardone)
Extrapolating Geographies and Intertextuality (with Lamya H.)
The Pleasure of the Text In the Kitchen, In Domestic Spaces, In Theories of the Body (with Rebecca May Johnson)
‘Monetary Authorities’: Racial Capitalism and Unconditional Decolonization (with Dr. Allan E. S. Lumba)
Technocapitalism, Nostalgia, and Pop Culture (with Jinwoo Chong)
‘How Do the Living Come Back to Life?’ (with Morgan Talty)
Symmetry/Asymmetry of Language and Translation (with Su Cho)
Untangling 'Trauma, Tresses, & Truth' (with Lyzette Wanzer)
An American Education Through Illness and Nourishment (with Dure Aziz Amna)
Black German Studies and Transnational Collectivity (with Dr. Tiffany N. Florvil)
Translation As Literary (Co)Creation (with Nguyễn An Lý)
Afro-Brazilian Media and Antiracist Visual Politics (with Dr. Reighan Gillam)
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