Profile:
Erica N. Cardwell is a writer, critic, and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. Erica uses a Black feminist lens as her primary critical approach - she often writes about print, archival media, visual culture, and interdisciplinary performance. Erica is deeply fascinated with the imaginations of people of color, as a tool for social, spiritual, and collective movement. She has written for BOMB,The Believer, Brooklyn Rail, Frieze, Hyperallergic, Green Mountains Review, Passages North and other publications. She has been awarded residencies and fellowships from the Lambda Literary Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and Banff Centre for Arts andCreativity. Erica received her MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She teaches writing and social justice at The New School; and is on the editorial board of Radical Teacher Journal.
Research Interests:
intersectionality, double consciousness, and deconstructing the universal narrative; the imagination of people of color as a tool for social change; the innovative qualities of grief; paper, print, etching, and drawing; archival mixed media; interdisciplinary performance