Janell Hobson is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is the author of Venus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture (Routledge, 2005).
Hobson's research focuses on literary and popular representations of women of African descent. Her work addresses both black women and other women of color's representations in popular film, literature, music, digital and other popular media. Much of this focus is on issues of embodiment.
Her current direction involves an oral history project on women in the Anglophone Caribbean (specifically Nevis and its diaspora) with a focus on history and migration. This new research reflects her continued interest in linking black women's stories with film and visual culture, as she plans on integrating oral history with visual storytelling via film footage, photographs and other archival records. She is also currently at work on a second book project exploring black women's representations in historical and globalized discourses on race and gender. Overall, Hobson uses a transnational lens to highlight black women's iconography and experiences in global or black diasporic perspective.
Janell Hobson is available for lectures. For more information, please visit Hobson's Faculty Page. | HOME