Charissa Granger

Charissa Granger
A musician and musicologist

She is a Marie Skłodowska Curie Post-Doctoral LEaDing Fellow at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Concentrating on Afro-Caribbean and diasporic music-making practices, Charissa is interested in decoloniality, how music enables sensuous knowledge, and decolonial aesthetics and epistemologies. After completing a bachelor’s in visual and performing arts at Northern Illinois University (USA) with a focus on cultural studies and steelpan performance and a master’s in cultural musicology at the University of Amsterdam, Charissa focused on world music performance practice, attending to how otherness is framed at world music festivals as a doctoral research project at the University of Göttingen (Germany).