Nijah Cunningham

Nijah Cunningham

Doctoral candidate, Department of English and Comparative Literature

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Nijah Cunningham is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and the editorial assistant for Small Axe. He is currently working on a dissertation that focuses on the interplay between literature, performance, and the question of a black aesthetic that emerges out of the 1960s moment and across three African diasporic nodes in Senegal, Jamaica, and the United States.

Working Group Affiliation

The Digital Black Atlantic