From ‘Permit Patty’ to ‘Karen’: Black Rearticulations of Racial Humor Featuring Dr. Raven Maragh-Lloyd In the third COM Spring colloquium, Dr. Raven Maragh-Lloyd will discuss two related case studies to explore how Black publics online have shifted racial humor as a resistance strategy to respond to white femininity and its deployment of the police state. … Read More
In March 2021, the UW Department of Communication was thrilled to welcome acclaimed academic practitioner Dr. Robin Means Coleman to deliver the 2021 Scheidel Lecture. Dr. Coleman expanded on themes from her book Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror from the 1890s to Present and her eponymously titled 2019 documentary Horror Noire, to engage the … Read More
Join us for our first Winter COM colloquium, featuring Dr. Khadijah Costley White New Date to Be Announced || 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM (PST) About this Event In this riveting presentation, Dr. White discusses approaching communication and cultural studies as political and civic engagement through community-based research. Drawing on scholars such as Herbert Marcuse, … Read More