Cogut Institute for the Humanities

Luvuyo Equiano Nyawose is a third-year doctoral student in the Department of Modern Culture and Media. His research, focused on South Africa, interrogates the ontological and libidinal dimensions of anti-Blackness. He traces the circulation of Black suffering across juridical, cultural, and libidinal economies, critiquing the aesthetic and political complicities of representation within regimes of control. Before coming to Brown University, he earned a B.A. in Motion Picture Medium from AFDA: The School for the Creative Economy, followed by a B.A. Honours in Curatorship and an M.F.A. from the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town. He currently serves as an Exhibitions Proctor at the Brown Arts Institute and the Bell Gallery, and programs films with the Magic Lantern Cinema, a Providence-based curating collective.