My’s Silent Scream: Memory, Traumatic Time, and the Embodiment of the Black Surreal in Rickerby Hinds’s Dreamscape Available to Purchase

Stephanie Leigh Batiste is a scholar/artist navigating the shifting line between creation and analysis, ideas and meaning, with delicacy and force. Associate Professor of Black Studies and English at the University of California at Santa Barbara and Director of the Hemispheric South/s Research Initiative, Batiste’s specialty areas include black performance studies, African American literature and culture, American studies including U.S. history and culture, cultural studies, and race and racism. Her book Darkening Mirrors: Imperial Representation in Depression Era African American Performance (Duke University Press, 2011) focuses on the relationship between power and identity in black performance cultures to reimagine black subjectivity and ways of being. Darkening Mirrors won the MLA William Sanders Scarborough Prize and honorable mention for the ATHE Book Award. Batiste’s current book project, Fallings, Resurrections, and the Spaces Between, studies violence and affect in millennial black urban performance cultures in Los Angeles. She is coeditor of the NYU Book Series Performance and American Cultures. Her performance work includes the solo-show Stacks of Obits about street murder in Los Angeles and the ensemble piece Blue Gold and Butterflies, a play in three generations.