Nov. 11, 2020: Stonewall Lecture with Jayna Brown

Professor Brown will speak on "Ecstasy" from her upcoming book Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds (Duke 2021), with responses from Jasbir Puar (Rutgers) and Kimberly Juanita Brown (Dartmouth). This event will be moderated by Eng-Beng Lim (Dartmouth).

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Jayna Brown's areas of knowledge and interest include black expressive cultures, film, queer of color critique, anarchism, materialism and science fiction. Her first book, Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern (Duke University Press, 2008) won Best Book awards from both the American Society for Theatre Research and the Theater Library Association. She has also published on African American race film and popular performance in various journals including The Journal of Popular Music Studies, GLQ, Social Text and Women and Performance. Her new book, Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds (Duke University Press, forthcoming) traces black radical utopian practice and performance, from the psychic travels of Sojourner Truth to the cosmic transmissions of Alice Coltrane and Sun Ra. Jayna Brown received her Ph.D. in 2001 in African American and American Studies from Yale University.