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Dr keisha bruce was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on The Colour of Diversity: A Longitudinal Analysis of BFI Diversity Standards Data and Racial Inequality in the UK Film Industry AHRC-funded project
Dr keisha bruce is a Black feminist researcher of technoculture, visual culture, digital media, and the transitionary spaces in between them. They completed their PhD in Black Studies at University of Nottingham in 2022. Their thesis explores how digital diasporic intimacies have been curated through visual practices on social media. They are currently working on turning their thesis into a book project which will further explore Black women and femmes’ curation of digital diasporic intimacies to offer provocations around digital space, embodiment, speculative memory, technological ingenuity and their relation to affective digital visual cultures. Their research has been published in Women’s Studies Quarterly and Feminist Media Studies.
keisha joined the Institute of Advanced Studies as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the AHRC-funded project, The Colour of Diversity: A Longitudinal Analysis of the BFI Diversity Standards Data and Racial Inequality in the UK Film Industry. During their time on the project they explored race and racism in the film industry in collaboration with the British Film Institute, and sought to contribute a Black feminist and queer theoretical perspective to the project’s research. Prior to joining UCL, keisha was a Research Associate at the University of Sheffield and University of Huddersfield where they researched creator labour and intersectionality in Yorkshire’s content creator community. In addition, keisha worked on research projects related to regional Black archives, global Black protest and sovereignty, social media and digital activism, and Black futurity. keisha is an Adjunct Professor in Race, Gender and the Media at Syracuse University-London.
Outside of academia, keisha has collaborated with local, national, and international organisations to deliver a range of public talks and workshops. These have included Black Women Radicals, Disegno Journal, Nottingham Contemporary, and New Art Exchange. These talks and events have covered: feminist theories of intimacy and pleasure, digital space and domesticity, Black queer worldbuilding, Black feminist communities, and pop-culture.
You can find out more about keisha’s work and research interests on their website: www.keishabruce.com.
