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  • Brittnay Proctor-Habil

    Assistant Professor in Race and Media

    Email
    proctorb@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    D - 79 Fifth Avenue

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    Brittnay Proctor-Habil

    Profile

    Brittnay L. Proctor is a researcher and writer of performance, popular culture, and sound/visual culture at the nexus of blackness, gender, and sexuality. She is Assistant Professor of Race and Media in the School of Media Studies at The New School and author of Minnie Riperton’s Come to My Garden (Bloomsbury Press: 33 1/3 Series). She is currently working on two book projects; one of which soundtrack’s black Southern migration to California during the Second Great Migration and the other, which draws on LP records and Compact Disc’s (CD’s), to trace the sonic and visual discourses of gender and sexuality in funk music.

    Her work has been published across platforms, including: Cultbytes, Essence.comJournal of Popular Music StudiesThe Journal of Popular CultureSounding Out!Feminist FormationsAfrican American Review, Reviews in Digital Humanities, and ASAP/Journal


    Degrees Held

    Ph.D., Northwestern University

    B.A., University of California, Riverside


    Recent Publications

    Proctor, Brittnay. “Untitled,” In This is it: Visions of Camp Lo’s Luchini, edited by Jeff Leon and Chantal James, Art by Clarence James, July 3, 2024, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WkRotth3UukniLwTI3dtfRQb7MlzoIq1/view

    Proctor, Brittnay. “To Stay and Linger, ‘Tomashi Jackson Across the Universe,’” Cultbytes, https://cultbytes.com/tomashi-jackson-across-the-universe/, May 4, 2024.

    Proctor, Brittnay. “Ahead of Whitney Biennial, Ligia Lewis Conjures a ‘With-ness’ for ‘study now steady,’” Cultbytes, https://cultbytes.com/ligia-lewis-conjures-a-with-ness-for-study-now-steady/, March 6, 2024.

    Proctor, Brittnay. “Nikita Gale Loosens Attitudes Around Sound With Her Performa 2023 Commission,” Cultbytes, https://cultbytes.com/nikita-gale-talks-performa-2023/, November 10, 2023.

    Proctor, Brittnay and Sirvent, Roberto. “BAR Book Forum: Brittnay L. Proctor’s Book, ‘Minnie Riperton’s Come to My Garden,’” https://www.blackagendareport.com/bar-book-forum-brittnay-l-proctors-book-minnie-ripertons-come-my-garden, April 5, 2023.

    Proctor, Brittnay. “Toni Cade Bambara Warned Us About Hyperfocusing On Gender,” Essence.com, https://www.essence.com/news/toni-cade-bambara-gender-feature/, December 16, 2022.

    Proctor, Brittnay. Minnie Riperton’s Come to My Garden (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 33 1/3 Series, 2022)

    Proctor, Brittnay. “‘Something Wonderful’: Undisiciplinarity and the Future of Black Studies.” “Becoming Undisciplined” Special Forum, ASAP/Journal (January 2022).


    Current Courses

    Black Feminist Media Methods
    NMDS 5030, Fall 2024

    Gender, Culture & Media
    LCST 4562, Fall 2024

    Gender, Culture & Media
    NMDS 5117, Fall 2024

    Independent Study
    NMDS 5920, Fall 2024

    Future Courses

    Black Music, Media & Society
    NCOM 3165, Spring 2025

    Blaxploitation Films
    NMDS 5353, Spring 2025

    Media Theory
    NMDS 5006, Spring 2025

    Past Courses

    Black Music, Media & Society
    NCOM 3165, Spring 2024

    Media Theory
    NMDS 5006, Spring 2024

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