Brittnay Proctor-Habil
Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Race and Media
Email
proctorb@newschool.edu
Office Location
D - 79 Fifth Avenue
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Brittnay L. Proctor (-Habil) 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, Gender and Sexuality Studies, 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, Board of Photography, and African American Review. She is currently completing a book manuscript about Minnie Riperton’s debut album Come to My Garden (1970) for Bloomsbury Press: 33 1/3 Series.
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