Research is invested in how black folx strive to embrace personal and communal psychic wholeness through circulating/constructing black subjectivities, knowledges, culture, spiritualities, and the manufacturing of black and radical realities. Through rhetoric (language and meaning-making), literature, and black life, black folx survive and thrive in an atmosphere of antiblackness.
Teaching at UCR since 2004, Vorris L. Nunley is a Black Study and English department member. His primary areas of interest are rhetoric (symbols and the manufacturing of realities), African American literature (post-1945, speculative fiction), depth psychology (Religion and spirituality, myth), public pedagogy, and neoliberalism. He writes and speaks about black and other unofficial, subjugated, and hidden knowledges and ways of being. In keeping with the Black Study requirement of community connection, Dr. Nunley teaches and engages with teachers and students on and off campus. He works with honors and residential life. Has traveled with students and community members to Africa and throughout California; organized cultural tours and visits to see various speakers, bookstores, and museums. As a former acting Chair, he is involved in establishing Black Study on campus and its investment in black, Black Trans knowledges and ways of being in an increasingly antiblack world.
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