Dr. BMP

Brandy Monk-Payton is a media and black cultural studies scholar specializing in the study of race and representation across television, film, and digital media. She is an Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies and an affiliated faculty in African and African American Studies at Fordham University.

Brandy obtained her Ph.D. in Modern Culture and Media at Brown University where she was a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow and Graduate Fellow at the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America. She completed an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Film and Media Studies at Dartmouth College in June 2017. Her work has been published in journals such as Persona Studies, Celebrity Studies, Communication, Culture and Critique, Film Quarterly, Feminist Media Histories, Women’s Studies in Communication, and The Black Scholar, as well as various edited book collections such as Watching While Black Rebooted: The Television and Digitality of Black Audiences and Unwatchable.

She is currently working on two book projects: a monograph on television and Black Lives Matter as well as a monograph on blackness and celebrity.