Author Andrew Brooks

Andrew Brooks

Andrew Brooks is a PhD candidate at the University at Albany, where he teaches courses revolving around race-relations in literature and film. He is also the co-editor of the forthcoming Living in Languages Graduate Translation Journal. His current projects study oppositional aesthetics in essayistic modalities across mediums.

Uta onna oboegaki (Notes of an Itinerant Performer, Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941)

Andrew Brooks

April 2021

CTEQ Annotations on Film

The mood of Hiroshi Shimizu’s Uta onna oboegaki (Notes of an Itinerant Performer, 1941) is marked by an image that is unremarkable in its brevity early in the film: a noose silhouettes against the shoji of an i...

The New-Ark: trying to disavow anti-blackness

Andrew Brooks

October 2020

Feature Articles

i: ceaseless calls for impossible devotions But my tendency, body and mind, is to make it. To get there, from anywhere, going wherever, always. By the time this…appears, I will be even-blacker. The New-Ark ...