Brenton Boyd (he/they) is an anti-disciplinary artist, theorist, and rootworker. He currently holds the title of Assistant Professor of Black Studies in the Department of English and Writing at University of Tampa. Brenton's research traces networks of sexual fantasy, death, and desire across black femme expressive and religious cartographies.

 

His first book project—World-Wrecking: Blackness, Eschatology, and Performance—channels the work of Sylvia Wynter into an apocalyptic theology informed by the magico-religious cultures of the Greater Caribbean. He is also at work on a second book project—The Black Bottom: Sexual Underworlds & Spectral Transpossessions—which is a shadow history of black queer and transfemme death doulas, sex workers, performance artists, and conjurors in the Caribbean and US South.

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Brenton's scholarship has been generously supported by the Mellon Mays Graduate Initiative, the Institute for the Recruitment of Teachers, the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, UNCF, Virginia Humanities, and many others. You can read their work in such academic venues as liquid blackness (Duke University Press), Syndicate Theology, and the Journal for Social Transformation.