Dr. Treva Lindsey discusses “Representin’: The Politics of Black Pop Culture in the Era of #BlackLivesMatter” on Thursday, April 16, from 4-6 p.m. in Bentley Hall 129.
Dr. Treva Lindsey
Lindsey is Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Ohio University.
She specializes in black feminist theory, women’s history, and popular culture studies. She has published in and has forthcoming publications in Meridians: Feminism, Race, and Transnationalism, Urban Education, The Black Scholar, The Journal of Pan-African Studies, SOULS, African and Black Diaspora, the Journal of African American Studies, and African American Review.
She is also the recipient of several awards and fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Emory University, the National Women’s Studies Association, and the Center for Arts and Humanities at the University of Missouri. Her first book titled, Colored No More: New Negro Womanhood in the Nation’s Capital is under contract at the University of Illinois Press. Her next book project will focus on popular culture representations of contemporary African American womanhood from the late 20th century to the present. She is a member of several organizations including: The National Women’s Studies Association, the American Historical Association, the American Studies Association, the Organization of American Historians, and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. She is building a strong online presence through guest contributing to online forums such as HuffPost Live, The Feminist Wire and The Left of Black Web Series.
This talk is sponsored by the Between Love and Hate curricular theme.
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