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“So much blood in my memory!
In my memory are lagoons. 
They are covered with death’s-heads. 
They are not covered in water lilies. 
In my memory are lagoons. 
No women’s loincloths spread out on their shores. 
My memory is encircled with blood. 
My memory has a belt of corpses! and machine gun fire of rum barrels brilliantly sprinkling our ignominious revolts, amorous glances swooning from having swigged too much ferocious freedom.” 

Aime Cesaire, 
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
 

Hello!
a bit about me:

I am an interdisciplinary scholar and  PhD Candidate in the University of Pennsylvania's Philosophy Department. 
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I am a Philosopher of Violence.
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The work I do is centered around violence, identity, personhood, colonialism, trauma (how it affects agency), affect (namely guilt and grief), and narrativity/poetics.
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My broad interests are anti-colonial theory, social epistemology, philosophy of mind (with a keen interest on collective mind), and memory. 
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I work with Latin American Philosophy, Caribbean Philosophy, Indigenous Philosophy, and Critical Black Studies to explore the impacts of jointly particular and collective experiences of colonial violence.
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Interested in chatting? Email me!
roebkeg@sas.upenn.edu 
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