Erica Moiah James is an Art Historian, Curator and Assistant Professor at The University of Miami (UM). Her research centers on modern and contemporary art of the Caribbean, African and African American Diasporas. Selected publications include Charles White’s J’Accuse! and the Limits of Universal Blackness (AAAJ, 2016); Every Nigger is a Star: Re-imaging Blackness from Post Civil Rights America to the Post-Independence Caribbean (Black Camera, 2016) and Decolonizing Time: Nineteenth Century Haitian Portraiture and the Critique of Anachronism in Caribbean Art (NKA,2019). Her forthcoming book is entitled After Caliban: Caribbean Art in the Global Imaginary. Before arriving in Miami, she was the founding director and chief curator of the National Gallery of The Bahamas (2003-2011) and an Assistant Professor at Yale University. She is a 2019 fellow at UM’s Humanities Center and a 2019-2022 Research Associate at the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Center, University of Johannesburg, S.A.
"What Will Blackness Be?," Callaloo 38, no. 3 (Summer 2015).
"Speaking in Tongues: Metapictures and the Discourse of Violence in Caribbean Art," Small Axe, no. 37 (March 2012).