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Jayna Brown is a professor in the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University. Her research interests center on black expressive cultures, speculative and science fictions, science studies, and the intersections of race and performance ecology. She has published several essays and books through Duke University Press, including "Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers Shaping Modernity" (2008), which examines the significance of black expressive cultures in understanding modernity, and "Black Utopias: Speculative Life and Music Worlds" (2021), which traces radical utopian practices in black culture and the cosmic dimensions of creative figures such as Sun Ra. Brown is a co-editor of the journal Social Text and has contributed to NPR’s music programming. Her teaching includes courses such as ARTS 2003 - Future Worlds and TAPS 2200W - Race, Desire, Self-Making, reflecting her focus on the dynamics of race, popular music, and media as well as black feminism.
Department: Department of Economics