Nijah Cunningham is an assistant professor of English at Hunter College, CUNY. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and was a Cotsen Fellow at the Princeton University Society of Fellows (2016-2019). His teaching and research focus on African American and African diaspora literatures and culture. Through a transnational approach to black literary studies and a critical archival approach, his current book project, “Quiet Dawn,” argues for a renewed consideration of Pan-Africanism as practice. His writing has appeared in platforms such as Art Journal, Small Axe, the New Inquiry, Women and Performance, Current Anthropology, ASAP/J, and PMLA. He is also the author of numerous catalogue essays on the works by artists such as Charles White, Oliver Jackson, Jennie C. Jones, Samuel Levi Jones, and Florine Démosthène. He is the curator of Hold: A Meditation on Black Aesthetics (Princeton University Art Museum, 2018) and, alongside David Scott and Erica M. James, co-curator of Caribbean Queer Visualities (The Small Axe Project, 2016), and The Visual Life of Social Affliction (The Small Axe Project, 2019-2020). He was the former editorial assistance and managing editor of Small Axe and program coordinator for the Small Axe Project