Amaris Brown
Academic Leave
Research/Areas of Interest
20th and 21st Century African American Literature and Visual Culture, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Critical Race and Disability Studies, Affect Theory, Black Feminist and Queer Thought
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell University, 2023
Biography
Amaris Diana Brown is the John Holmes Assistant Professor in the Humanities in the Department of English at Tufts University. A Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellow, she earned her Ph.D. in Africana Studies from Cornell University. Brown has been awarded fellowships from The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Mellon Collaborative Studies in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities, and the Institute for Comparative Modernity. She was a Helena Rubinstein Critical Studies Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art and has served as a Scholar-in-Residence at the Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College. Her work has been published in the 50th anniversary of The Black Scholar, Recess Art Gallery, and The Flesh of The Matter: A Hortense J. Spillers Reader (2024).
Brown's interdisciplinary research and teaching are at the intersection of African-American literature and visual culture, critical race and dis/ability studies, affect theory, and black feminist and queer thought. She is at work on her first book, Becoming Less Able, which situates ideological investments in black ability within histories of racial capitalism and capitalist modernity.
Brown's interdisciplinary research and teaching are at the intersection of African-American literature and visual culture, critical race and dis/ability studies, affect theory, and black feminist and queer thought. She is at work on her first book, Becoming Less Able, which situates ideological investments in black ability within histories of racial capitalism and capitalist modernity.