Elise Barnett is a scholar and curator, who imagines the expressive and material art forms of literature and embroidery as modes to rethink the semiotics of Black gender and to entangle questions of Black life/world(s)-making and social death in the Caribbean. This work in and outside of the academy is multi-scalar. It is marked by an effort to rewrite the “unreadable”—Black art, Black death, and Black femmes—and to make home—The Bahamian archipelago (and the circum-Caribbean)—the critical rather subsidiary point(s) of entry.
