Who Am I?
Shanté Paradigm Smalls received her PhD in Performance Studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in September 2011. Her book project, Hip Hop Heresies: New York City’s Queer Interraciality, 1975-2005, uses critical race theory, hip hop studies, and queer theory to consider how New York City hip hop music, visual art, and film offers “queer articulations” of race, gender, and sexuality.
Smalls, an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow & Visiting Assistant Professor in the English Department at Davidson College (NC), has previously taught courses in Performance Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at New York University and Pace University. She’s currently teaching classes in queer theory & studies and critical race theory and African American literature. In Fall 2013, she will join the American Studies Department at the University of New Mexico.
Her interests are in performance studies, hip hop studies, American popular culture, critical race theory, Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, Afro-Asian culture, queer culture and feminism, graphic novels, Shaw Brothers martial arts films and speculative fiction and SF. Her article, “’ The Rain Comes Down’: Jean Grae and Hip Hop Heteronormativity,”was published in Legitimacy in the Modern World. American Behavioral Scientist, January 2011, 55 (1): 86-95.“‘Blaisians’: Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon and NYC Hip Hop’s Afro-Asian Life,” is currently under review.
She is working on two subsequent book projects: Androids, Cyborgs, Others: Black Futurism, Black Fantasy, which investigates black post-humanism from the 19th century to the present, and Ill Knowledge: Transnational Queer Artistry, a study of queer and trans feminist artists in the US, the Caribbean, and Europe.
Smalls received her BA in English and Theatre at Smith College, and her MA in Individualized Studies at New York University.
Shanté Paradigm Smalls also makes music, poems, and other assorted scribblings about love, future/other worlds, and waking up.
In other portions of her life, Smalls is training to be a meditation and Buddhist teacher in the Shambhala tradition of Tibetan (Vajrayana) Buddhism. She also is a practitioner of Anusara yoga. Shante Paradigm is fortunate to be the mother of three dogs, Tilopa (aka Tilo), a Boxer-Greyhound-Plott Hound mix; Drala, a Staffordshire Terrier-Hound mix, and Olivia, a Boxer-Staffordshire Terrier Mix.
NYU Performance Studies PhD Alumni page
Twitter: @shanteparadigm
Blogspot Archive: shanteparadigm.blogspot.com
Who Am I?
Shanté Paradigm Smalls received her PhD in Performance Studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in September 2011. Her book project, Hip Hop Heresies: New York City’s Queer Interraciality, 1975-2005, uses critical race theory, hip hop studies, and queer theory to consider how New York City hip hop music, visual art, and film offers “queer articulations” of race, gender, and sexuality.
Smalls, an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow & Visiting Assistant Professor in the English Department at Davidson College (NC), has previously taught courses in Performance Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at New York University and Pace University. She’s currently teaching classes in queer theory & studies and critical race theory and African American literature. In Fall 2013, she will join the American Studies Department at the University of New Mexico.
Her interests are in performance studies, hip hop studies, American popular culture, critical race theory, Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, Afro-Asian culture, queer culture and feminism, graphic novels, Shaw Brothers martial arts films and speculative fiction and SF. Her article, “’ The Rain Comes Down’: Jean Grae and Hip Hop Heteronormativity,”was published in Legitimacy in the Modern World. American Behavioral Scientist, January 2011, 55 (1): 86-95.“‘Blaisians’: Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon and NYC Hip Hop’s Afro-Asian Life,” is currently under review.
She is working on two subsequent book projects: Androids, Cyborgs, Others: Black Futurism, Black Fantasy, which investigates black post-humanism from the 19th century to the present, and Ill Knowledge: Transnational Queer Artistry, a study of queer and trans feminist artists in the US, the Caribbean, and Europe.
Smalls received her BA in English and Theatre at Smith College, and her MA in Individualized Studies at New York University.
Shanté Paradigm Smalls also makes music, poems, and other assorted scribblings about love, future/other worlds, and waking up.
In other portions of her life, Smalls is training to be a meditation and Buddhist teacher in the Shambhala tradition of Tibetan (Vajrayana) Buddhism. She also is a practitioner of Anusara yoga. Shante Paradigm is fortunate to be the mother of three dogs, Tilopa (aka Tilo), a Boxer-Greyhound-Plott Hound mix; Drala, a Staffordshire Terrier-Hound mix, and Olivia, a Boxer-Staffordshire Terrier Mix.
NYU Performance Studies PhD Alumni page
Twitter: @shanteparadigm
Blogspot Archive: shanteparadigm.blogspot.com
