Andrew Brooks
Ph.D. Student
2022
Andrew Brooks grew up in Flint, Michigan and Long Beach, California. He received an undergraduate education at San Francisco State University, as well as earning graduate degrees from SFSU and the State University of New York at Albany. In addition, Andrew is the co-founder and current head editor of Living in Languages Translation Journal. His research interests revolve around the essay form through the long 20th century within African American literature and film traditions, focusing on the shift to the Black arts and power movement of the 1960s through to the greater public presence of Black queer forms of the 1980s and 90s. Within this context, Andrew is interested in the intersections of visual culture and performativity in the Black essay tradition.