Africana Studies / Rites and Reason Theatre

Felicia Bishop Denaud earned her B.A. cum laude from Columbia University where she pursued Sociology and African American Studies with a focus in English as a John Kluge Scholar. Her research explores the relationship between political authority, knowledge production, and resistance/rebellion/revolution in the context of the modern African diaspora. Her research attends to the spiritual and cultural dimensions of black political knowledge to both capture the social dynamics of political change and interrogate disciplinary formations. Felicia draws extensively from black intellectual and literary history, feminist theories, political philosophy, postcolonialism, and historiography. Outside the classroom, Felicia is an aspiring poet and avid cyclist.