Episode 12 | “Waiting for Happiness” – a Conversation with Nijah Cunningham

Left of Black co-host Sasha Panaram is joined in the studio by literary scholar, Nijah Cunningham.

Cunningham is a Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow at the Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. He is also an assistant professor of English at Hunter College. He specializes in African American and African diasporic literature and his fields of interest include black studies, performance studies, visual culture, gender and sexuality, and postcolonial criticism. He received his Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in 2015. His work has appeared in Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism and Women & Performance.