Marcelitte Lucia Failla
Black witch, African-derived religions, occult, tarot, Black feminism, Black queer studies
Marcelitte Failla is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at North Carolina State University. She received her Ph.D. from Emory University in American Religious Cultures with a certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her current book project investigates how contemporary Black witches employ African diasporic religions for manifestation, healing, and protection from anti-Blackness. more
Works (12)
2026 chapter
Black Witchcraft: Reclaiming an Ancestral Term of Power
[The Crossroads Project,]. In V. A. Booker, A. Greene-Hayes, J. Weisenfeld, & A. Wells-Oghoghomeh (Eds.), New Scholarship in the Study of African American Religious History. https://crossroads.princeton.edu/news/2022/call-papers-new-scholarship-study-african-american-religious-history
Ed(s): V. Booker, A. Greene-Hayes, J. Weisenfeld & A. Wells-Oghoghomeh
2026 article
“Hoodoo and Ifá /Orisa Traditions.”
(E. J. Locke & B. Wright, Eds.). The Palace of Thundering Gods: A Massively Collaborative Open History of Religion in the United States. https://www.americanyawp.com/projects/the-palace-of-thundering-gods/
Ed(s): E. Locke & B. Wright
2025 article
“You Deserve, Baby!”:
FAILLA, M. A. R. C. E. L. I. T. T. E. (2025, February 7). (S. Chaudhuri & J. Ward, Eds.). The Witch Studies Reader, pp. 75–89.
Ed(s): S. Chaudhuri & J. Ward
2022 journal article
Assembling Black Spiritual Totality: The Black Witch, Ontological Power and Imagining a Black World of Being
The Black Scholar. https://www.theblackscholar.org/call-for-papers/black-religions-in-the-digital-age/
2022 journal article
Black Women and Tarot
Liturgy, 36(1). https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ultg20/current
2019 journal article
Black Femmes, Black Gods: Magic as Justice
Journal of Religion and Culture, 28. http://www.jrc-concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/JRC-v28n02-FAILLA-marcelitte-1.pdf
2019 conference paper
Dark Sciences: Collective Dreaming for Transformative Change
National Women’s Studies Association Conference. https://www.nwsa.org/
2019 conference paper
Knowings: African Heritage Religions and Their Underappreciated Epistemologies
Kosanba Conference. https://latinamericancaribbean.duke.edu/kosanba-conference
2014 conference paper
Mixed Roots Stories Panel: Inclusion of the Mixed Experience in Performance Pieces
Critical Mixed-Race Studies Conference.
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