Marlaina Martin, Candidate for Assistant Professor of African American or Indigenous American Studies

Job Talk Title: 

Validly Undefined: Bodies, Catharsis, and Reflection in Black Women’s Media Production

Job Talk Description:

Cognizant of histories in which Black women’s bodies were not legally considered ‘their own,’ and of media systems that continue to widely discount and hypersexualize Black women characters, this presentation examines why and how some Black women media-makers choose to practice methods and create works that intentionally center their bodies – albeit on differently rationalized terms. In fact, many Black women media-makers weave reflections on self and society into their production processes, using ‘making’ itself as means to make better sense of powerful lived experiences by transforming them into outwardly coherent forms: here, media visuals, audio, plotlines, techniques, and/or aesthetics. Overall, this presentation analyzes constructed spaces and acts of media production as sites of catharsis, reflection and internal dialogue.

Date: March 11th 

Time: 1:00 PM

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https://clarkson.zoom.us/j/99886933130

Meeting ID:  998 8693 3130

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