Kara Keeling

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Kara Keeling is an American humanities academic. She is professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and chair of Cinema & Media Studies at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. [1]

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Early life and education

Keeling was born in 1971. [2] Her father was Rudy Keeling, a basketball coach at Emerson College. [3] She received her PhD in Critical and Cultural Studies from the University of Pittsburgh. [4]

Research and publications

Her research focuses on African American cinema, feminist film theory, critical theory, cultural studies, and gender and sexuality studies. [5]

In 2007, Duke University Press published Keeling's first book, The Witch's Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense. In this book, Keeling argues that cinema's ability to structure social reality, thus producing and reifying racism, homophobia, and misogyny, can be disrupted by the figure of the Black femme; despite its lack of representation in hegemonic imagery of race and gender, this figure constantly threatens to make visible alternative social arrangements. [6]

Kara Keeling has also written influential articles such as "Looking for M-: Queer Temporality, Black Political Possibility, and Poetry from the Future", published in GLQ in 2009 and "Queer OS", published in Cinema Journal in 2014. [7] [8]

"Looking for M-: Queer Temporality, Black Political Possibility, and Poetry from the Future"

In her article "Looking for M-: Queer Temporality, Black Political Possibility, and Poetry from the Future", Keeling discusses the temporality and spatiality the Black queer experience through films such as Looking for Langston, Brother to Brother, and The Aggressives. Keeling goes on to talk about the disappearance of one individual, M-, and addresses the fact that the ways in which society functions in the temporal and spatial might not always be ideal for those labeled as the "Other", such as M-. [9]

Selected works

References

  1. "Kara Keeling". USC Cinematic Arts. Retrieved 2025-03-31.
  2. "Keeling, Kara, 1971-". LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2025-03-31.
  3. "With a Lion's heart, Keeling sought challenges". The Berkeley Beacon. 2013-09-27. Retrieved 2025-03-31.
  4. "Kara Keeling". Center for Critical Race + Digital Studies. Retrieved 2025-03-31.
  5. "Kara Keeling". USC Dornsife. Retrieved 2025-03-31.
  6. "The Witch's Flight". Duke University Press. Retrieved 2025-03-31.
  7. Snorton, C. Riley (2019). "The Temporality of Radical Potential?" . GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 25 (1): 159–161. doi:10.1215/10642684-7275390. ISSN   1527-9375. S2CID   149597472.
  8. Barnett, Fiona; Blas, Zach; Cárdenas, Micha; Gaboury, Jacob; Johnson, Jessica Marie; Rhee, Margaret (2016). "QueerOS: A User's Manual". Debates in the Digital Humanities. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
  9. 1 2 Keeling, Kara (2009-10-01). "LOOKING FOR M—" . GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 15 (4): 565–582. doi:10.1215/10642684-2009-002. ISSN   1064-2684. S2CID   143959913.
  10. Keeling, Kara (2019-04-16). Queer Times, Black Futures. NYU Press. ISBN   978-0-8147-4833-6.
  11. Keeling, Kara (2014). "Queer OS". Cinema Journal. 53 (2): 152–157. doi: 10.1353/cj.2014.0004 . ISSN   2578-4919.
  12. Keeling, Kara (2020-12-31), Hong, Grace Kyungwon; Ferguson, Roderick A. (eds.), "Two. I = Another: Digital Identity Politics" , Strange Affinities, Duke University Press, pp. 53–75, doi:10.1515/9780822394075-004, ISBN   978-0-8223-9407-5, S2CID   234469191 , retrieved 2023-02-22
  13. Keeling, Kara (2005-01-01). "Passing for human: Bamboozled and digital humanism" . Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory. 15 (1): 237–250. doi:10.1080/07407700508571495. ISSN   0740-770X. S2CID   191476563.
  14. Keeling, Kara (2007-11-05). The Witch's Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense. Duke University Press. ISBN   978-0-8223-4025-6.
  15. Keeling, Kara (2020-12-31), Johnson, E. Patrick; Henderson, Mae G. (eds.), "Joining the Lesbians: Cinematic Regimes of Black Lesbian Visibility" , Black Queer Studies, Duke University Press, pp. 213–227, doi:10.1515/9780822387220-012, ISBN   978-0-8223-8722-0, S2CID   241536919 , retrieved 2023-02-22
  16. Keeling, Kara (2003). ""Ghetto Heaven": Set It Off and the Valorization of Black Lesbian Butch-Femme Sociality" . The Black Scholar. 33 (1): 33–46. doi:10.1080/00064246.2003.11413202. ISSN   0006-4246. S2CID   147541859.
  17. Keeling, Kara (2003). ""In the Interval": Frantz Fanon and the "Problems" of Visual Representation" . Qui Parle. 13 (2): 91–117. doi:10.1215/quiparle.13.2.91. ISSN   1041-8385. JSTOR   20686152.
  18. Keeling, Kara (March 1999). ""A Homegrown Revolutionary"?: Tupac Shakur and the Legacy of the Black Panther Party" . The Black Scholar. 29 (2–3): 59–63. doi:10.1080/00064246.1999.11430964. ISSN   0006-4246.