Staging Black Masculinities

*Please note that this seminar will be held via Zoom. Please register your place in advance. Registration will close at 09.00 on Monday 9 February 2026.

Dr Elizabeth Robles (University of Bristol) is a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art at the University of Bristol. She recently ended her term as the Director of the Centre of Black Humanities and is the programme director for the MA in English with Black Humanities and History with Black Humanities. Her research is focused on the histories of Black and Brown artists in British Art History, with a particular focus on the period from 1960-the early 1990s.

Her paper will consider how Faisal Abdu’Allah’s I Wanna Kill Uncle Sam… (1993) and Chris Ofili’s Double Captain Shit and the Legend of the Black Stars (1997) engage Black Atlantic cultural forms to interrogate 1990s discourses around fixed forms of black masculinity and diasporic identities.

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