Biography: Raven Maragh-Lloyd's primary area of research investigates digital media culture with an emphasis on critical race and gender studies. She explores the ways that particular racialized and gendered identities and their related discourses influence the processes of digital structures as well as how these identities are created, maintained, and (re)produced online. Dr. Maragh-Lloyd's dissertation, "Toward A Raced Connective Media: Black Resistance Online", investigated the ways that Black publics in the U.S. have created resistance through the use of media tools in ways that foreground contemporary resistance online. For example, as a case study, she conducted focus groups with 20 African-American women in St. Louis, Missouri in order to explore patterns of everyday resistance, such as visual embodiment through photo sharing, as well as the barriers to communication and resistance online, such as the ‘Jezebel’ controlling image of Black womanhood and issues surrounding hyper sexuality. Her scholarship and teaching makes central the work and joy of race, identity, and media. Lastly, Dr. Maragh-Lloyd's work has appeared in Television and New Media, the Journal of Communication Inquiry, and forthcoming book chapters will appear in the Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture by Wiley Press and a collected series titled "Black Sisterhoods: Black Women's Representations of Sisterhood Across the Diaspora" by Demeter Press.