Speakers
- Erin Gray
- University of California, Davis, Assistant Professor
Dr. Erin Gray is a poet, political theorist, and educator from Toronto, Canada. She is Assistant Professor of Black Literary and Cultural Studies in the Department of English at the University of California, Davis. Erin writes and teaches at the intersections of black feminist studies, continental philosophy, visual and performance cultures, and experimental poetics to interrogate the production of racist and anti-racist epistemologies in a range of aesthetic practices from the nineteenth century to the present. Her current book project, The Moving Image of Lynching: Law-Founding Violence and Liberal Terror in the Long American Century, focuses on the co-emergence of legal lynching and racial liberalism to argue that lynching is an historically fungible form of violence that structures U.S. capitalist modernity. Erin holds a Ph.D. in History of Consciousness from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an MA in Social and Political Thought from York University.