Doctoral Student Fellow
Ph.D Candidate Department of Spanish and Portuguese, New York University
Barrel Poetics
Dantaé Garee Elliott is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University. She is particularly interested in contemporary Caribbean Art and its relation to migration within the Caribbean diaspora and region through examining the barrel children phenomenon. To highlight mobile remittance and the relationship between a material object (barrel poetics) and what she terms barrel poetics, granting agency to a material object that affects subjectivity. She holds a B.A. in Spanish Language and Literature with a concentration in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) from Roanoke College and an M.A. in Spanish Language and Literature focusing on Colonial Literature from the University of Delaware. She was the program assistant for the Caribbean Initiative workshop series at the Center for Caribbean and Latin American Studies at NYU. In the summer of 2022, she served as Co-Director for the CCCADI (Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute) Summer Seminar for their Curatorial Fellowship class 2022. She works as an Editorial Assistant for Small Axe, A Caribbean Journal of Criticism http://smallaxe.net/. She is a featured artist in Volume 04 of Forgotten Lands, titled Currents of Africa, released in June 2022, and copy editor for Volume 05, titled The Haunted Tropics. She is a 2023 summer fellow for the Mellon-funded CCL (Center for Curatorial Leadership) summer intensive seminar. She is also a spring 2023 Mellon Fellow at Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at NYU and co-curator of the first solo exhibition of Vincentian artist and photographer Nadia Huggins, titled Coral & Ash, at the KJCC, New York University.