Alum Grace Gipson was the keynote speaker at this comic-con style event! Read more

Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this March! Read more

This new curated Instagram account focuses on depictions of Black girls and women in the media. Read more

The smartest person in the Marvel universe, how ‘Black Panther’ – and its sequel – changed Hollywood, and why representation in pop culture matters Read more

Alum Grace Gipson is featured in "Teaching with Comics". Read more

Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this August! Read more

Twitter was on fire after #theslap incident and alum Grace Gipson analyzes some of what's going on. Read more

We love learning about our alumni's courses across the country! Check out this feature in Viriginia Commonwealth University News about Grace Gipson's Humanizing the Black Female Voice in Television. Read more

Grace Gipson was featured in a conversation on the topic of Black Women and Theories of the Future! Read more

Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this February! Read more

Check out the work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web! Read more

BCNM alum Grace Gipson was featured on a panel discussing women in media and entertainment at the University of Rochester. Read more

BCNM alum Grace Gipson gave a lecture about representations of the Black experience for the Freedom School 3.0 lecture series. Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this October! Read more

Grace Gipson chatted with the Chicago Humanities Festival on comics, characters, and authors! Check it out! Read more

Grace Gipson published an article on Southern hip hop in the Black Perspectives blog.   Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this June! Read more

Grace Gipson recently discussed Black women's impact on the history and future of comic books during the Chicago Humanities Festival. Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web in May! Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this April! Read more

BCNM alum Grace Gipson moderated a conversation on BIPOC voices in speculative fiction as part of the 2021 Virginia Festival of the Book. Read more

Submit to an upcoming anthology that will imagine and explore futures for Richmond,VA through an Afrofuturist lens. Read more

Applications are due February 1, 2020. Read more

Alum Grace Gipson published "The ‘Baby Dolls’ of New Orleans: Gender, Race, and Self-Creation," a review on  Walking Raddy: The Baby Dolls of New Orleans in Black perspectives. Read more

Talking Comics and (Dis)ability in the Midwest at the 2019 Michigan State University Comics Forum. Read more

We're  to our extraordinary The Berkeley Center for New Media is thrilled to provide small grants to our graduate students to help them share their innovative research at the premier conferences in their field. Read more

Applications are due February 1, 2019. Read more

We’re thrilled to be supporting our graduates as they travel across the globe to share their scholarship. Read more

Gipson presented on podcasts and Black female narratives at DragonCon Comics and Popular Arts Conference 2018. Read more

The 2018 Conference for UNC Chapel Hill's Moore Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program focused on Afrofuturism and Indigenous Futurities. Read more

Grace Gipson, along with her BlackComicsChat co-hosts, interviewed comic artist Whit Taylor about her life and work.  Read more

Grace Gipson was quoted in "Momentum builds for 'Black Panther'" in The San Francisco Chronicle.  Read more

Grace Gipson shared insights on comics and afrofuturism at the Black Imagine Oakland convention. Read more

Gipson received a summer research award from the BCNM to support her dissertation research by attending the Popular Culture Summer Research Workshop Read more

The Berkeley Center for New Media was delighted to host the Cultural Committee from the Danish Parliament on June 28, 2016 Read more

BCNM is proud to announce the recipients of its Summer 2015 Research Awards! Read more

Applications this semester were phenomenal and we’re thrilled by the unique perspectives each of our new students will bring to the Center Read more