cv tl;dr? Recently, now, and soon:
(MAR26) I will be presenting at the 2026 NeMLA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. My first presentation is a research talk entitled "Cyborg Pretty: Maïmouna Doucouré’s Black Girlhood and Digital Faces." A second, pedagogically-focused talk will concern the confluences of French and STEM fields (namely mathematics).
(MAR26) I will be presenting at the 2026 20 and 21st-Century French and Francophone Studies Symposium (University of Notre Dame). My paper will concern aesthetics of girliness in the novel genre of frapcore, and the paper is entitled, “Rap’s ‘House’ Music: Urumi, Frapcore, and Affective Intimacies.
(JAN26) I will be presenting at the 2026 MLA Yearly Conference in Toronto, Canada. My panels contributions will include some thoughts on youth speech and soundscapes in Mati Diop’s Dahomey, as well as some thoughts on the confluences of girlhood and the literary movement known as négritude.
(NOV25) I was a participant in the “La noire de… at 60” conference, sponsored by the University of Cambridge. An article version of this intervention is forthcoming.
(OCT25) I also gave a talk on my chapter in Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media, section III. “ALGORITHMS”, with the BAFTSS Colour and Film SIG in cooperation with the Colour Group.
Some of my writing includes:
(Under Consideration). “Sunkissed: Materialities, Microchimera, and the fille soleil in Gisèle Pineau’s Un papillon dans la cité.”
(2026). “Articulāre: On Archival Temporality and Saying the Unspeakable.” Forthcoming in Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International.
(2026). “We, Cosmos: Laura U. Marks’s Text as Soul Assemblage.” Senses of Cinema. Online.
(2025). “‘Cyborg-Cute': Colors of 'Good' Mixed-Race Algorithms.” Chapter in Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media. MIT Press. Boston, Massachusetts.
*The talk for this chapter is linked above!
(2024). "Space to Breathe." Qui Parle. Duke University Press.
(2023) “Mise(ère)-En-Scène : Transposition and the Child in Hugo’s and Ly’s Les Misérables.” L’Esprit créateur 63.3 (2023): 67–79. Web.
*In spring 2025, this article was selected for re-publication in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, v. 480. Gale. Print. (Forthcoming)
(2023). "The Lost Promise of Childhood." Africa is a Country. Online.
(2023). "The Colonial Wounds of Senegal’s Girlchild." Africa is a Country. Online.
(2022). Review of L’ambivalence de la sacralisation de l’enfance dans l’écriture de Gisèle Pineau, Malika Mokeddem, Ken Bugul, by Djoher Sadoun. The French Review.
Sweat, Amber and Abad-Ocubillo, Robin (2020). “Diaspora: Identity and the Pathos of Global Labor.” Review commissioned for San Francisco Urban Film Festival. Digital.
(2020). “Urban Manufacturing: Nostalgia or Necessity? On Montreal, Metalsmithing, and the Materialization of Patrimoine.” Review commissioned for San Francisco Urban Film Festival. Digital.
Translations
Juan Antonio Elvira Calito, and Amber Sweat. “BENEATH THE SURFACE.” Maya America 4.1 (2022): 66–75. Print.
Sophie Villers, and Amber Sweat. “I, Volcano: Of Earth and Fire.” Maya America 4.1 (2022): 47–61. Print.
Still Baking
“‘There is nothing to repair’: (Im)materialities and temporality in Mati Diop’s Dahomey (2024).”