Speakers
- Brittney Michelle Edmonds
- University of Wisconsin, Madison Postdoctoral Fellow
Brittney Michelle Edmonds is an Anna Julia Cooper Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her book manuscript “Who’s Laughing Now?: Black Satire and the Millennial Blues of Black Masculinity investigates the post-civil rights era’s “satirical turn,” and develops a theory of its gendered aesthetics in relation to the black radical tradition and theories of black masculinity. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, South: A Scholarly Journal, The Journal of Feminist Scholarship, The Encyclopedia of African-American Culture, and Bearing Witness: Reading James Baldwin in the 21st Century. With historian Jennifer D. Jones, she co-founded the Black Queer Sexuality Studies Collective at Princeton University. In Fall 2020, she will begin an appointment as an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.