Department of Modern Culture and Media

J.M. Nimocks is a writer, budding curator, and PhD student in the department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. Since arriving at Brown University in 2022, J.M. has presented their academic work at Brown University’s German Studies Department ‘Thinking Unrest, Reading Time: German Idealism and the Traces of History’ conference (2023), Duke University’s ‘Climate Change, Decolonization, and Global Blackness Summer Workshop’ at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute (2024), Brown University’s ‘Elemental Media Conference’ (2024), and ‘The Summer Institute of Psychoanalysis’ at Sorbonne University (2025). They recently co-curated the symposium titled ‘Caribbean Poetics in the Work of Julien Creuzet’ for the David Winton Bell Gallery (2025) and their writing is forthcoming in the associated catalogue. Their developing dissertation project explores the intersections of discourses on the body in continental philosophy, mythology and form, and auto-theoretical writing and art in the twentieth century.