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Darieck Scott on Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics

09 Dec, 2022

Darieck Scott on Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics

Presented on October 14, 2022, as part of the Social Science Matrix "Authors Meet Critics" series, this panel focused on the book "Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics" (NYU Press, 2022), by Darieck Scott, Professor of African American Studies at UC Berkeley.

Professor Scott was joined in conversation by Ula Taylor, Professor & 1960 Chair of Undergraduate Education in the UC Berkeley Department of African-American Studies and African Diaspora; and Scott Bukatman, Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Stanford University Department of Art & Art History. The panel was moderated by Greg Niemeyer, Professor of Media Innovation, Toban Fellow, and Director of the Art Practice Graduate Program at UC Berkeley.

This event was co-sponsored by the Department of African American Studies and the Berkeley Center for New Media.

To watch the full panel, Click Here!