Programs

Joshua Segun-Lean is a writer and researcher. His writing engages contemporary issues across visual and literary culture, Black studies, gender, spatiality, and politics. With a background in International Business, Joshua tries to understand how social practices interdict, respond to and intersect flows of capital in the ‘globalized’ world, and by extension how the aspirations of Black cultural production, under the continued strain of coloniality, signify resistance, belonging and self-determination. Current research is informed by the relationship between protest and performance, protest as performance, and subaltern modernisms in music, architecture, and literature. At the moment, he works out of Lagos, Nigeria.

Residencies & Fellowships

Because my metier is black … (after Toni Morrison)

August 11April 17, 2027
Led by Jessica Lynne, and faculty members Erica N. Cardwell, Margo Jefferson, Danielle Amir Jackson, Stefanie Jason, Yaniya Lee, Colony Little, Tarisai Ngangura, Rianna Jade Parker, and Still Nomads (Samira Farah and Areej Nur).