Dantaé Garee Elliott
Dantaé Garee Elliott, PhD, is a visiting lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University. Her dissertation, 'Barrel Poetics', examines barrel culture within the Caribbean diaspora and its representation in contemporary Caribbean art. She served as Co-Director of the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute Summer Seminar for the Curatorial Fellowship class in 2022.
She is an Editorial Assistant for Small Axe, A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. Additionally, she is a featured artist in Volume 04 of Forgotten Lands, Currents of Africa, and a copy editor for Volume 05, The Haunted Tropics. Elliott was the spring 2023 Mellon Fellow at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at NYU and co-curated the first solo exhibition of Vincentian photographer Nadia Huggins, Coral & Ash, at the KJCC, New York University. She was a 2024–2025 doctoral fellow at the Center for the Humanities and a Dean’s Dissertation fellow at NYU.
