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Word nerd. Feminist ladyfesto. Eye spy. Analog. Author of The Repeating Body: Slavery's Visual Resonance in the Contemporary and Mortevivum: Photography and the Politics of the Visual. In the Dark Room. Always.
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@dartmouthartsci.bsky.socialReposted by @kjuanitabrown.bsky.socialProfessor @kjuanitabrown.bsky.social’s “Black Elegies: Meditations on the Art of Mourning” from @mitpress.bsky.social has won the 2026 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, the American Studies Association’s annual award for the most outstanding book published in American studies.
@kjuanitabrown.bsky.socialThank you, Susan!
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@brison.bsky.socialReposted by @kjuanitabrown.bsky.socialAfter a trying week for Dartmouth faculty, some excellent news: My brilliant friend and colleague, Kimberly Brown, was awarded the 2026 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize by the American Studies Association for Black Elegies: Meditations on the Art of Mourning!
@kjuanitabrown.bsky.socialTwice as nice, indeed!
@allisonlevy.bsky.socialReposted by @kjuanitabrown.bsky.social🤩 Twice as nice! Announcing double honors for the ON SEEING book series, a joint venture by Brown University Digital Publications and @mitpress.bsky.social @kjuanitabrown.bsky.social @browncds.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social @acls1919.bsky.social #openaccess library.brown.edu/create/libne...
@propcazhpm.bsky.socialReposted by @kjuanitabrown.bsky.social"In 1840, a doctor named James Marion Sims established the surgery practice in Montgomery, AL where he and his mentee, Nathan Bozeman, developed the field of gynecology by experimenting on black enslaved women." He also invented the speculum. Link to the book, Materia Medica by Nicole N. Ivy here.
@dukepress.bsky.socialReposted by @kjuanitabrown.bsky.socialIn "Sonorous Passages," Meina Yates-Richard attends to the ignored, muffled, and silenced women of the Black Atlantic literary tradition, showing how the sounds of Black maternal figures communicate freedom practices amid ongoing subjection. Read the intro for free: buff.ly/5UzYvvr
