Nikki Lane
List of John Benjamins publications for which Nikki Lane plays a role.
Articles
2021 An open letter to the editors of the Journal of Language and Sexuality 10th Anniversary Issue: Reflections on the Field of Language and Sexuality Studies, Leap, William L. and Heiko Motschenbacher (eds.), pp. 59–62 | Article
In this open letter, I ask the editors of the Journal and its readers, to reflect on the Journal’s relationship to studies of language and Black sexuality, and consider new ways to reach scholars of Black life, culture, and language. Studies of Black language practices rarely deal with the ways… read more
2018 Narratives of affect: Language and feeling in black queer space Language/Sexuality/Affect, Leap, William L. (ed.), pp. 55–76 | Article
Extending the work of those who center narratives in their discussions of affect, this essay considers black queer women’s (BQW) narratives describing the sensations associated with being in and out of spaces created for and by BQW. The narratives examine emerged during ethnographic interviews I… read more