Join us for a lecture by Alessandra Raengo. 

Dr. Raengo is a theorist of black aesthetics and visual culture, working at the intersection of Black Studies, Visual Culture Studies, Film Studies, Art History, and Aesthetic Theory. She is the author of On the Sleeve of the Visual: Race as Face Value (Dartmouth, 2013) and Critical Race Theory and Bamboozled  (Bloomsbury, 2016) and numerous articles and book chapters on Black cinema, the Black visual arts, and Critical Race Theory. Dr. Raengo is the Founding Editor in Chief of the liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies, recently acquired by Duke University Press, a journal entirely devoted to the intersection between Black Studies and aesthetic theory she initially founded with her graduate students here at GSU. The Duke UP journal is an outgrowth of the liquid blackness group she founded in 2013 in the Moving Images Studies doctoral program, which is devoted to the study of the radical aesthetic possibilities of the visual and sonic arts of the Black diaspora. Under her leadership “liquid blackness” developed into a multi-pronged project: a theoretical concept, a methodology, a pedagogy, an archival project, a digital humanities initiative archived at the Library of Congress, a curatorial practice, and a praxis of community-building.  Most recently, Dr. Raengo has been one of the driving forces behind AMPLIFY, a showcase for film students’ work that seeks to foster artistic and critical dialog around systemic anti-blackness.