Academic Appointments and Education
July 2023 --
Assistant Professor of Race and Media
School of Media Studies
The New School
New York, NY
July 2021 - July 2023
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow of Race and Media
School of Media Studies
The New School
New York, NY
2019-2021
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies,
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA
2018-2019
Visiting Assistant Professor
Program of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
The College of Wooster
Wooster, OH
September 7, 2018
(Conferred Date)
Ph.D., African American Studies
Northwestern University
Department of African American Studies
Evanston, IL
December 2011
(Conferred Date)
University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
B.A. Political Science and African American Studies
Writing and Media Coverage
Book Manuscripts
Proctor, Brittnay. Minnie Riperton’s Come to My Garden (Bloomsbury Press: 33 1/3 Series, November 2022)
Proctor, Brittnay. ‘Doing It To Death’: Post-1960s Black Popular Performance and Theories of Black Gender (In-Progress)
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Proctor, Brittnay. “‘I Am What I Am’: Disco, Queer Anthems, and Black Femme Labor” (In-Progress)
Proctor, Brittnay. “‘Something Wonderful’: Undisiciplinarity and the Future of Black Studies.” “Becoming Undisciplined” Special Forum, ASAP/Journal (January 2022).
Proctor, Brittnay and James Bliss. “‘It’s Not as Easy as It Looks on the Page’: Black Feminist Classics Against the Promise of Security.” Feminist Formations 32, no. 1 (2020): 15-28.
Proctor, Brittnay. “‘Shout It Out:’ Patrice Rushen as Polyphonist and the Sounding of Black Women’s Affectability and Genius.” The Journal of Popular Music Studies, 29, no. 4 (2017).
Book Reviews and Digital Humanities Reviews
Proctor, Brittnay. Review of .break .dance. Reviews in Digital Humanities, Volume 2, No. 8 (August 16, 2021). https://reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/breakdance/release/3
Proctor, Brittnay. Review of The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music. Duke University Press, 2018. 288 pp. $25.95 paper. African American Review, Volume 54, Numbers 1-2 (Spring/Summer 2021): 175-178.
Proctor, Brittnay. Review of Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures and The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics. American Literature 91 (2019): 429-431.
Proctor, Brittnay. Review of The Hippest Trip in America: Soul Train and the Evolution of Culture and Style. Nelson George. New York: William Morrow, 2014. 236 pp. $22.40 Cloth. Journal of Popular Culture 49, no. 4 (2016): 945-48.
Encyclopedia Entries
Proctor, Brittnay. “Sun-Ra,” in African American Culture: An Encyclopedia of People, Traditions, and Customs, ed. Omari L. Dyson, Judson L. Jeffries, and Kevin L. Brooks. Santa Barbara: Greenwood, An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, 2020.
Public Writing
Proctor, Brittnay. "Toni Cade Bambara Warned Us About Hyperfocusing On Gender,” Essence.com, https://www.essence.com/news/toni-cade-bambara-gender-feature/, December 16, 2022.
Proctor, Brittnay. “Honey.” Board of Photography, http://boardofphotography.com/brittnay-l-proctor/, July 1, 2020.
Proctor, Brittnay. “Of a Famous Dog.” Hyped on Melancholy, https://www.hypedonmelancholy.com/of-a-famous-dog, June 26, 2020.
Proctor, Brittnay. “Mingus Ah Um (1959) and An Ethics of Care in Jazz.” Sounding Out!: The Sound Studies Blog, https://soundstudiesblog.com/2019/09/23/mingus-ah-um-1959-and-an-ethics-of-care-in-jazz/, September 23, 2019.
Media Coverage
“Dr. Brittnay L. Proctor discusses her new study on Minnie Riperton,” The House That Soul Built, https://thesoulhouse.net/2023/01/10/proctor-riperton/, January 10, 2023.
Justin Tinsley, “For Allen Iverson, it was never just about ‘practice,’”Andscape, https://andscape.com/features/for-allen-iverson-it-was-never-just-about-practice/, May 6, 2022.
Melissa Wasserman, “Northwestern Hosts Black Feminist Futures Symposium,” Windy City Times, https://windycitytimes.com/m/APPredirect.php?AID=55320, May 25, 2016.
Grants and Awards
Finalist
University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2020 – 2021 Competition
Visiting Scholar Research Grant
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Visiting Scholar Program at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Library and Archives, March 2018
Teaching Experience
Fall 2020
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Gender, Sexuality, and Black Popular Music
Spring 2020
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Feminist Cultural Studies: Feminist Print Culture
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Gender and Law
Winter 2020
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Feminist Approaches to Sound Studies and Visual Culture (Graduate Seminar)
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Gender, Sexuality, and Black Popular Music
Fall 2019
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Image Problems
Spring 2019
Visiting Assistant Professor, The College of Wooster, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Race, Gender, and Popular Music
Visiting Assistant Professor, The College of Wooster, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Histories of Feminist Thought
Visiting Assistant Professor, The College of Wooster, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Fall 2018
Visiting Assistant Professor, The College of Wooster, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (2 Sections)
Winter 2017
Instructor, Northwestern University, African American Studies, Winter 2017
Theories of Black Gender and Black Sexuality