Speakers
- Marthia Fuller
- University of New Mexico
Marthia Fuller is a doctoral candidate in the American Studies Department at the University of New Mexico. She received her BA in African American Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University and her MA in Afro American Studies from UCLA. Marthia’s primary areas of research interest are popular culture, black feminist theory, and visual culture. She is particularly interested in how race is informed/re-imagined in literary genres such as science fiction and post-apocalyptic/dystopian narratives and how, through these mediums, we become introduced to alternate meanings of blackness. Her research project focuses on the deployment of race, gender and sexuality in graphic novels and how racial codes, or the performance of what becomes marked as ‘black’, are (or are not) translated thru graphic novels. She is currently writing about black and brown girlhood; using a comparative approach to explore the how girls of color form their identities within the Marvel universe.