Assistant Professor of Cultural and Critical Youth Studies at Miami University
About
Durell M. Callier (PhD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at Miami University.
His research and scholarship sits at the interstices between critical youth studies, black cultural studies, performance studies, and queer theory. An interdisciplinary scholar, his research documents, analyzes, and interrogates Black queer youth’s lived experiences, utilizes performance-based methodologies to theorize systemic violence against Black and queer youth, and interrogates the educative and political usages of narrative and art within, by, and for marginalized communities.
He has published articles on anti-Black violence, queer antagonism, masculinity, Black girlhood, and performance art in a variety of venues such as Qualitative Inquiry, Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research and Text, and Performance Quarterly. Currently, Callier, alongside other colleagues, is co-organizing a special issue journal collection for Curriculum Inquiry and Departures in Critical Qualitative Research exploring issues of citizenship and education broadly conceived, and Black girlhood, feminism, and critical youth studies respectively.
An artist-scholar, Callier is the co-founder and visionary of an arts-based collective, Hill L. Waters (www.hilllwaters.com), which enacts Black queer world-making as an embodied pedagogy, research site, and publicly engaged practice. Through the usage of narrative research, alongside performance, feminist, and queer methodologies, Hill L. Waters creates performance texts exploring issues of race, gender, sexuality, love, violence, and belonging. Further illustrating his commitment to publicly engaged scholarship and practice, Callier has also written, performed, and produced plays (Tell It!: A Contemporary Chorale for Black Youth Voices), performance texts (Bodies on Display; Love, Funk, and Other Thangs; Connected, OUT), and created a mixed media art installation (disclosure).
Research Area Keyword(s):
Gender and sexuality; critical race studies; violence
