The Black Intellectual Series presents Hip Hop as Scholarship: Hip Hop Feminist Dispatches from the South

                                                              The Black Intellectual Series presents

                  Hip Hop As Scholarship: Hip Hop Feminist Dispatches from the South

                                 Thursday, March 19 | 7:00 PM | Johnson Board Room, Robertson Hall | BCR Provided

Join the Hub for Black Affairs & Community Engagement as we welcome Dr. Durham and Dr. Pough to be in conversation with us as we further expand on the theme “Hip Hop as Scholarship” through a Black Feminist lens. Hip Hop feminism is a cultural, intellectual, and political project that extends the artistic, analytical, and advocacy-oriented work by girls and women of color from the “post” generations.

Dr. Aisha Durham is a Black feminist cultural critic. Her research explores the relationship between media representations and everyday life using autoethnography, performance writing, and hip hop feminist media studies, which she engages in with international talks in Japan, Germany, and Brazil and in her three books, including her NCA award-winning monograph Home with Hip Hop Feminism: Performances in Communication and Culture.  Durham is a Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at the University of South Florida. She is a former faculty fellow for Fulbright-Hays (Brazil), advisory board member for the hip hop anthology by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, and a recipient of the Marsha Houston Award (NCA) and the Ellis-Bochner Autoethnography and Personal Narrative Research Award (ISAN). Durham’s latest research is featured in Communication, Culture, and Critique, the Community Literacy Journal, and the Handbook of Autoethnography.

Dr. Gwendolyn D. Pough is a renowned scholar of feminist theory, African-American rhetoric, women’s studies, and hip hop culture. She has several publications including her seminal book, Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere. In this work, she explores the complexities of hip hop, urging young Black women to harness the genre’s activist roots to claim their public voice and “bring wreck” on systemic sexism and misogyny.  She also co-edited a hip hop anthology and three special journal issues for Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition, Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, and FEMSPEC: an Interdisciplinary Feminist Journal Dedicated to Critical and Creative Works in the Realms of SF, Fantasy, Magical Realism, Surrealism, Myth, Folklore, and other Supernatural Genres. Pough is a Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Dean’s Professor of the Humanities, and the Associate Dean of Strategic Initiatives at Syracuse University.