Dr. Catherine Knight Steele is an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she directs the Black Communication and Technology _(BCaT) _lab and the graduate program in Digital Studies in the Arts and Humanities. Dr. Steele studies race and media, specifically focusing on the Black discourse, technology, the Black blogosphere, digital discourses of resistance and joy, and digital Black feminism. She is the author of Doing Black Digital Humanities with Radical Intentionality (forthcoming April 2023, Routledge) and Digital Black Feminism (NYU Press 2021), which examines the relationship between Black women and technology as a centuries-long gendered and racial project in the U.S and was the 2022 winner of the Association of Internet Research Nancy Baym Book Award and Diamond Anniversary Book Award for the National Communication Association. In this episode, Dr. Steele and Dr. Evans share a moment to not only discuss love for their shared hometown of Chicago but also how her experiences growing up served as the impetus for her work’s focus on digital Black feminism and how this work has shaped her work within her BCaT lab at the University of Maryland.
Uncommon Naledge is hosted by Dr. Jabari Evans and edited and produced by Connor Bird.
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Original music for introduction and outro produced by Michael "Double 0" Aguilar.
