Jayna Brown
Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies
Ph.D., 2001, Yale University
INTS 4011
(951) 827-2502
Professor Brown researches performance in the U.S. and elsewhere in the Diaspora, with a focus on vernacular expressive forms and the body. Her book, Babylon Girls: Race Mimicry, African American Women Chorus Line Dancers and the Modern Body, is forthcoming from Duke University Press. She has published on African American race film and the Black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux. She has been awarded dissertation and postdoctoral Ford Foundation Fellowships as well as a Rockefeller Award for the Study of Black Culture at the Stanford Humanities Center. Her two current projects are a series of essays on race, technology and utopias in speculative fiction and global pop music, and another project on black women and post punk music in Britain. Her classes at UCR include: African American Women Intellectuals and Artists, Race and Performance and African American Literature.