Brittnay Proctor-Habil
Assistant Professor of Race and Media
Email
proctorb@newschool.edu
Office Location
D - 79 Fifth Avenue
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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.com, Journal of Popular Music Studies, Sounding Out!, Feminist Formations, African 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. “Love at the End of the World” In Pretty Little Brick: Rituals of Rage, Safety, and Pleasure edited by OlaRonke Akinmowo (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2024)
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).