Micheal Rumore

Micheal Rumore is a doctoral candidate in English at the Graduate Center, CUNY. His dissertation, titled “Black Water: Race and the Human Project in the Indian Ocean Imagination,” approaches the Indian Ocean as an African diasporic site. In large part, the project interrogates why dominant notions of oceanic “cosmopolitanism” appearing frequently in the field of Indian Ocean studies tend to exclude Blackness and Africanness. Ultimately, his research engages contemporary questions of “cosmopolitical” solidarity and diasporic subjectivity in resistance to globalized processes of dispossession and proliferating ethno-nationalisms. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in venues such as the edited collection Oil Fictions: World Literature and our Contemporary Petrosphere, Social Text Online and Studies in the Fantastic. In addition, he has taught literature and writing courses at Lehman College, LaGuardia Community College, and Queens College, CUNY.