Through our scientific and technological genius, we've made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment, we must make of it a brotherhood.
Background
Kimberly Juanita Brown is an assistant professor of English and Africana Studies at Mount Holyoke College. Brown earned her PhD in African American studies and American studies at Yale University, after completing master’s degrees in American studies and African American studies and a certificate in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. She earned a BA in English and Africana studies from Queens College, City University of New York.
Interests
Brown is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of feminist theory, literature and visual culture studies (particularly photography). Her research engages feminist theories of the Black diaspora; contemporary narrative and photography; slavery and the body in contemporary culture; visual culture of the Americas; and cultural representations of violence and memory.
In response to the need for collaboration and community among black scholars, Brown founded and continues to organize a group of over 40 faculty members of color from across the nation in a virtual and physical research group called “The Dark Room” to read and discuss the latest research and thought in visual studies and critical race theory.
Sample Work
Publication
Mortevivum/Sempervivum
“Mortevivum/Sempervivum,” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 28:3, Archives of Erasure, Fall 2017.
Publication
Nothing/More: Black Studies & Feminist Technoscience
Co-editor (with Jared Sexton), Catalyst Journal Special Issue: “Nothing/More: Black Studies & Feminist Technoscience,” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, Issue 2, Vol. 2, Fall 2016.
Publication
The Repeating Body: Slavery’s Visual Resonance in the Contemporary
The Repeating Body: Slavery’s Visual Resonance in the Contemporary (Duke University Press, 2015).
Publication
Saving Mr. Jefferson: Slavery and Denial at Monticello
“Saving Mr. Jefferson: Slavery and Denial at Monticello” in Ethical Confrontations with Antiblackness: Africana Studies in the 21st Century, eds. Tryon Woods and P. Khalil Saucier (Africa World Press, 2015).