Chelsea Mikael Frazier

Chelsea Mikael Frazier is an Assistant Professor of African American Literature and Culture in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University. A Black feminist ecocritic, her work explores intersections of race, gender, ecology, and spirituality through decolonial frameworks.

• African American Literature
• Black Feminist Theory
• Ecocriticism
• Yoruba-Diasporic Cosmologies
• Visual Art Analysis

Her recent scholarship examines how Black women artists redefine environmental narratives, blending cosmic symbolism with critiques of Western patriarchy. Publications include analyses of Afro-diasporic cosmologies in visual culture and feminist ecological manifestos. Frazier’s work emphasizes ancestral knowledge systems and the transformative potential of Black feminist creative praxis in reshaping ecological thought.