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Rebecca Kumar
Rebecca Kumar, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of English at Spelman College. She specializes in cinema and visual culture with an emphasis on global queer and feminist film. She also has scholarly interests in comparative ethnic studies, particularly Afro-Asian relations and the emerging field of critical brown studies. Her published work appears in Thirty Years After: New Essays on Vietnam War Literature, Film, and Art (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009) and Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), and in the journal, Scholar & Feminist Online. She has also co-edited and contributed to a Special Issue of Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media on the Netflix series, Stranger Things. She is currently co-editing a collection of essays tentatively titled Queer and Femme Gazes in AfroAsian Visual Culture. As a public scholar, Rebecca regularly contributes to Turner Classic Movies’s website, TCM.com.
Contact: Spelman College, 350 Spelman Ln SW, Atlanta, GA 30314, USA.