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Abstract
This conversation between Faye Gleisser, Walton Muyumba, and Tara Aisha Willis is a document of the afterlife of the residency and theorizes the “check-in” as a practice for collaborative scholarly and creative production. The dialogue reflects on Willis’s writing-focused visiting fellowship hosted by Gleisser and Muyumba at Indiana University’s Institute for Advanced Study, and was recorded over Zoom in January 2024 amidst escalating interlaced global and local contexts: the devastating loss of Palestinian life, intensifying censorship of anti-war activism, AI-generated writing, restrictive funding structures, and the gendered anti-blackness of academia and arts institutions. The following questions animate the flow of conversation: What does it mean to work in tandem with others today? How can we think about writing projects about art in ways that reveal as well as generate trust-oriented collective work? How has the lineage of Black feminist criticism informed our pedagogical approaches to writing and research? What are the biggest struggles we are facing right now when revising and refining work written over many years?
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