Bryeson C. Henry

Bryeson is PhD student in English and American Literature examining the application of decoloniality to formations of Blackness, Black identity, Black gender performance, and Black resistance. His research is interested in framing the formation of African American identities as engaging decolonial praxis while putting forth how early African American authors provide decolonial frameworks through their narratives and narrative acts of resistance or redress. Concurrently, his research wishes to draw out connections between early African American resistance practices and contemporary movements like Black Radicalism and Black Anarchism to examine how they collectively fit into and expand the canon of decolonial theory and world-making.

Primary Fields:
Decolonial Theory, Early African American Literature, 20^th Century Black Feminist Literature, 16^th Century English Literature, Ecocriticism

Education:
Ph.D. in English and American Literature, Boston University, In Progress
M.A. in English and American Literature, Boston University, 2023
B.A. in Africana Studies, Cornell University, 2021
B.A. in Literatures in English, Cornell University, 2021

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