Brenton Boyd is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English, with concentrations in philosophy and WGSS, at Emory University. Generously supported by the Mellon Mays Graduate Initiative, the Institute for the Recruitment of Teachers, the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, UNCF, and many others, Brenton’s research interrogates Caribbean and African American literatures, continental philosophy, performance studies, and black (queer) theology. Their dissertation project, “World-Wrecking: Afro-Eschatology and the Spirit of Black Performance” speculates on the end of the world retheorized through the expressive, intellectual, and magico-religious cultures of the Greater Caribbean and US South.