Brittnay Proctor-Habil
Assistant Professor in Race and Media
Email
proctorb@newschool.edu
Office Location
D - 79 Fifth Avenue
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Brittnay L. Proctor received her PhD in African American Studies from Northwestern University and is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Race and Media in the School of Media Studies at The New School. Her research interests include: Black Studies; black popular music, black feminist theory, sound studies, visual culture, and performance. Her work has been published in the Journal of Popular Music Studies, The Journal of Popular Culture, American Literature, Sounding Out!, Feminist Formations, Hyped on Melancholy, African American Review, Reviews in Digital Humanities, and ASAP/Journal. Her forthcoming book, Minnie Riperton’s Come to My Garden will be published with Bloomsbury Press: 33 1/3 Series, November 3, 2022. She is also working on a second book manuscript which draws on LP records and Compact Disc’s (CD’s), in order to trace the sonic and visual discourses of gender and sexuality in funk music in the United States post-1960.
For more information on her recent publications and engagements, please visit: https://www.brittnayproctor.com/.
Degrees Held
Ph.D., Northwestern University
B.A., University of California, Riverside
Future Courses
Black Feminist Media Methods
NMDS 5030, Fall 2024
Black Music, Media & Society
NCOM 3165, Spring 2025
Black Music, Media, & Society
NMDS 5354, Spring 2025
Blaxploitation
NMDS 5353, Spring 2025
Gender, Culture & Media
NMDS 5117, Fall 2024
Gender, Culture & Media
LCST 4562, Fall 2024
Independent Study
NMDS 5920, Fall 2024
Past Courses
Black Feminist Media Methods
NMDS 5030, Fall 2023
Black Music, Media & Society
NCOM 3165, Spring 2024
Gender, Culture & Media
NMDS 5117, Fall 2023
Gender, Culture & Media
LCST 4562, Fall 2023
Media Theory
NMDS 5006, Spring 2024