The KSP Universe,
where the mashup of art, science, humanities, and education exists.
Dr. Kat Stephens-Peace is a scholar, educator, researcher, and artist whose work lives at the intersection of higher education, critical dis/ability studies, critical ADHD studies, literature, and Caribbean studies — informed by the Global South, poetic inquiry, visual arts, indigenous, alternative, and arts-based research methods that amount to a refusal of the boundaries of traditional Western scholarship.
Kat Stephens-Peace, Ph.D. is an Afro & Indo Guyanese, neurodivergent scholar whose intellectual universe bridges the personal and the otherworldly. Her work sits at the intersection of Critical Dis/Ability Studies, Black Disability Studies, Higher Education, Caribbean Studies, Literature, Poetry, and Visual Arts.
She doesn't study these intersections from a distance — she inhabits them. Every lecture, poem, and publication is an act of worldmaking.
As a leading voice on neurodiversity in higher education, her work is reshaping how institutions understand, support, and center neurodivergent students and faculty.
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"My universe exists strictly from my vision and can't be generalized. My assignment is to build it."— Dr. KSP
Critical Dis/Ability & ADHD Studies
Interrogating how disability is constructed, performed, and policed — centering Crip Time, histories, and legacies across educational and cultural institutions, with attention to race, gender, and geography.
ExploreCaribbean Studies Scholarship
Drawing on Caribbean intellectuals from Walter Rodney to Sylvia Wynter to theorize resistance, knowledge production, and the politics of existence — rooted in diaspora, creolization, and #islandbrilliance.
ExploreGeographies of Space and Place
Accounting for ever-changing geographies and what is left in their wake — grounded in the scholarship of Katherine McKittrick, with attention to linguistics, migration, and spatial realities.
ExploreArts-Based Research Methods
Scholarship that refuses to sit still. Research that sings, performs, and builds worlds.
Poetic Inquiry
Poetry is not decoration — it is a research methodology. Dr. KSP uses poetic inquiry to excavate truths that traditional academic prose cannot reach. The poem becomes data, analysis, and findings simultaneously.
Performance as Research
The stage is a research site. Embodied performance generates knowledge that cannot be extracted through surveys or interviews alone.
Autoethnography
The self as site of inquiry. Critical autoethnography places lived experience at the center of scholarly investigation — not as anecdote, but as evidence.
Speaking
Keynotes, panels, and invited lectures that ignite rooms and challenge assumptions.
Black Feminist Disability Framework: Experiences of Black Women in Graduate School
Full-length keynote addresses on disability justice, arts-based research, and the radical possibilities of embodied scholarship.
Interactive sessions that move beyond lecture — participants leave with frameworks they can use immediately.
Podcast appearances, interviews, and commentary that bring scholarly insight to public conversation.
Media gallery launching soon
A curated collection of keynote clips, podcast features, performances, and visual archives is in development.
Contact
For speaking inquiries, collaborations, media requests, or to connect about the work.
"Every collaboration is a chance to build a world that doesn't exist yet."— Dr. KSP