In this talk Michelle M. Wright will argue that it is the way we tend to frame knowledge--both its formation and its progress--that hinders our ability to both research and represent the contributions not only of marginalized collectives, but those further marginalized within that collective. Drawing from her book Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology, Wright interrogates the linear and explores the possibilities of what she terms "Epiphenomenal" spacetime.

Michelle M. Wright is the Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Professor of English at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where she teaches courses on gender, sexuality and race in the Black and African Diaspora.