Join us as doctoral student and writer Channelle Chevelle Russell argues the need for a contemporary theory of Black Feminist Aesthetics at the limits of form, narrative, and visuality

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Channelle Chevelle Russell is a writer and theorist invested in Columbia University's Department of English & Comparative Literature, where she traces Black feminist itineraries around literary, aesthetic, and cultural form. Born in Jamaica and raised in coastal South Carolina, Channelle earned her Bachelor of Arts from Emory University, summa cum laude, before completing her Master of Letters in Creative Writing from Scotland’s University of St Andrews. Prior to joining Columbia, she served the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture as a curatorial and research assistant for their global exhibition, “In Slavery’s Wake.” In addition to a dissertation interrogating operations of affect and interiority within Black feminist writing, Channelle is also at work on a novel which explores reality TV, spectacle, and queer unruliness in a 21st-century world. She writes the culture newsletter "Girl Uninterrupted" and spends her free time leading discussion groups at Brooklyn’s Center for Fiction, walking through Central Park, and dutifully making her way through every cooking competition show ever.