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Grace Gipson at Culpeper Con

14 Apr, 2023

Grace Gipson at Culpeper Con

Grace Gipson gave the keynote at Culpeper Con, a comic-con event for the Culpeper Library!

From Richard Horner's Star Exponent article "CulpeperCon to have pop culture scholar as keynote speaker":

When the Friends of the Culpeper Library announced their first in house comic-con event in January, it also announced Dr. Grace D. Gipson as the keynote speaker.

Gipson is an assistant professor of African-American studies at Virginia Commonwealth University whose research involves Afrofuturism and Pop Culture Feminism. Gipson also describes herself as a huge comic book nerd.

You can read more about the program at this news article featuring Grace's headlining act here.