Imma studies gender and sexuality in contemporary African literature, visual culture, performance, new media, and other activist sites of cultural production. She also has strong secondary intellectual investments in African Diasporic feminisms, Caribbean literature and film, and Haitian studies. Through her teaching and research, Dr. Imma seeks to contribute to African gender and sexualities studies, global Black feminisms, postcolonial queer studies, and the larger project of decolonizing knowledge production.
Through an analytic tracing of the representations and erasures of Nkoli, Imma explores how Black queer life in South Africa is documented, articulated, utilized, and at times, stubbornly illegible within the archive.
Imma is currently developing her second project, Love Economies: Queering Erotic and Intimate Geographies in the Postcolony , in which she argues that the making of Black queer erotics in emergent African literary and visual texts interrupt long-standing colonial discourses on African bodies, spaces, sexualities, and genders, as well as, challenge increasingly pervasive homonationalist ideologies.
She earned her doctorate in English Language and Literature from the University of Virginia and her research has been awarded numerous prestigious fellowships and grants including the Mellon Mays Fellowship, Carter G. Before joining the faculty of Tulane University, Dr. English Department. Department of English. Norman Mayer Education Ph. Biography Dr.
