People

Kathryn Frank

Assistant Professor, Whitman College

Presenter on Comic Culture Panel

To Adapt or Not to Adapt: Negotiating Commodification and Racialization from Comic Books to Live Action

Kathryn M. Frank completed her Ph.D. in Communication at the University of Michigan and her B.A. in Chicana and Chicano Studies at Stanford University. Dr. Frank specializes in media industries...

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Scarlett Hester

Assistant Professor, Middle Tennessee State University

Presenter on Resistance & Restoration Panel

“I’m not fuxxing with white people”: LeBron James, The Shop, and Black Counter Publics

My research interests include critical media studies, critical rhetoric, whiteness, race & gender, and intersectionality. I am especially interested in pursing intersectional feminist scholarship in...

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Douglas Ishii

Assistant Professor, Emerson College

Presenter on Asian/American Panel

Not About Race, Per Se: The Indie Asian American Indie Rock Film

Assistant Professor Ishii teaches classes on 20th- and 21st-century U.S. multiethnic literature, transnational Asian/American literature, and queer of color critique. His scholarship has been...

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Sean Lee

Student - George Washington University

Presenter on Charlottesville, Media, and Anti-Racist Activism Roundtable

Eraced: The Experiences of Minority Students at the University of Virginia Post-Charlottesville August 11th and 12th, 2017

Sean Lee is a first-year law student at the George Washington University School of Law. He graduated from UVA this past May with High Distinction in African-American and African Studies. His...

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Lori Lopez

Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Presenter on Asian/American Panel

Finding Asian America: Documentary Exhibition and Distribution in a Post-Netflix Era

Dr. Lopez's research examines the way that minority groups such as women, people of color, and queer communities use media in the fight for social justice. She is interested in struggles to improve...

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