Dr. Grace Gipson’s career as a rising pop culture scholar began during her undergraduate journey, while attending Clark Atlanta University (CAU) in Atlanta, GA. She followed her passion for examining representations of race and gender in pop culture and comic books, and pursued her graduate studies at Georgia State University (MA in African American Studies) and the University of California Berkeley (Ph.D. in African American Studies, with an emphasis in new media). Her graduate work served as the foundation for her current research interests, which center around Black pop culture, digital humanities, the intersections of race and gender in comic books and gaming, Afrofuturism, and race and new media... Read more
|