Like millions of others, I attended a screening of Michael during its opening week. I found myself tapping my feet to the music. By the time “Bad” played at the film’s conclusion, I was dancing my way…
James Howard Hill Jr
James Howard Hill Jr., Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Religion at Boston University whose work explores the relationship between the Black study of religion, popular culture, political theory, race, and the haunting dimensions of faith and public life. His scholarship engages figures such as Michael Jackson alongside broader questions of religion, memory, haunting, and Black cultural production. Hill is the author of the forthcoming books The Haunted Fantastic: On Faith, Vocation, and Critical Hope (Fortress Press) and The Michael Jackson Cacophony (University of Chicago Press).
