Welcome! My name is Kishonna Gray and I am currently an Associate Professor in Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies at the University of Kentucky.
I previously served as an MLK Scholar and Visiting Assistant Professor at MIT in Comparative Media Studies and the Women & Gender Studies Program. Learn more about this appointment HERE. I have also served as a Faculty Visitor at the Social Media Collective at Microsoft Research (Cambridge).
I am currently affiliated with the following research centers:
The Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society
The Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies
The Center on Digital Culture and Society
My scholarship is influenced by my interdisciplinary training and grounded in critical race theory and feminist approaches to knowledge production. I interrogate the impact that technology has on culture and how Black users, in particular, influence the creation of technological products and the dissemination of digital artifacts. While my extensive publication record explores how technology disparately impacts women and people of color, my current research interrogates the possibilities and potentials of what that technology can afford Black communities who are traditionally excluded from public spaces, including digital ones.
Check out the "Books" tab and preview my CV to explore more of my work.
Contact me for speaking engagements, guest lectures, consultation work, collaborations, or just to chat (Contact Tab).
I'm friendly! Even if you troll me! Hehehe!
I previously served as an MLK Scholar and Visiting Assistant Professor at MIT in Comparative Media Studies and the Women & Gender Studies Program. Learn more about this appointment HERE. I have also served as a Faculty Visitor at the Social Media Collective at Microsoft Research (Cambridge).
I am currently affiliated with the following research centers:
The Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society
The Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies
The Center on Digital Culture and Society
My scholarship is influenced by my interdisciplinary training and grounded in critical race theory and feminist approaches to knowledge production. I interrogate the impact that technology has on culture and how Black users, in particular, influence the creation of technological products and the dissemination of digital artifacts. While my extensive publication record explores how technology disparately impacts women and people of color, my current research interrogates the possibilities and potentials of what that technology can afford Black communities who are traditionally excluded from public spaces, including digital ones.
Check out the "Books" tab and preview my CV to explore more of my work.
Contact me for speaking engagements, guest lectures, consultation work, collaborations, or just to chat (Contact Tab).
I'm friendly! Even if you troll me! Hehehe!
