Taylor Jordan Holmes

<p>With an emphasis in cultural studies, gender and queer theory, and theories of subjectivity and affect, my research aims to investigate literary constructions of diasporic blackness and to unveil the communion between Black social life and death from the eighteenth century on. My current project conceives of judicial contempt power and colonial racist contempt of Black Americans as concomitant historical developments that continue to generate evolving schemes of affective, moral, and legal heteronomy exercised primarily through judicial and police power.</p>