Caribbean Studies, Literature, Queer Theory, Performance Theory, Postcolonial Theory, Borderland Theory, Biopolitical Philosophy, Feminist Gender and Sexuality Studies, Inter-Caribbean Collective Agency, and Social Change.
Biography
Renatta Fordyce’s research contends that while the ideological permanence of the British colonial encounter is evidenced in the shaping of juridical and social concepts of gender and sexuality in the Anglophone Caribbean, queer worldmaking manifests in all elements of Caribbean culture. Fordyce examines queer worldmaking in Guyana through revolutionary cultural performances and quotidian artistic expressions as disruptions of hetero- and homonormativities that consistently create space for queer subjectivities. Her research centers these perceived subversions as de facto Caribbean culture, which ruptures the notion of the queer as an abject figure/Antiman/modern colonial subject and the Caribbean as simply an overly homophobic and transphobic space. She received her MA in Africana Studies from Cornell University and holds a BA in Comparative Literature: Postcolonial and Colonial Studies from Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
