Kimberly Juanita Brown

Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing

Dartmouth College

Kimberly Juanita Brown is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. Her research engages the site of the visual as a way to negotiate the parameters of race, gender, and belonging. Her book, The Repeating Body: Slavery’s Visual Resonance in the Contemporary (Duke University Press) examines slavery’s profound ocular construction, the presence and absence of seeing in relation to the plantation space. Brown’s forthcoming book Mortevivum: Photography and the Politics of the Visual (MIT Press) examines the relationship between photography and histories of antiblackness. Brown is the founder and convener of the Dark Room: Race and Visual Culture Studies Seminar. The Dark Room is a working group of women of color whose work gathers at the intersection of critical race theory and visual culture studies.