Roxane Gay | School of Communitn and Informatn | Rutgers Universy

Contents:

• ROXANE GAY
• ROXANE GAY APPOTED GLORIA STEEM ENDOWED CHAIR MEDIA, CULTURE AND FEMIST STUDI
• ROXANE GAY AND GLORIA STEEM UNPACK THE MEDIA, REPRODUCTIVE JTICE AND EQUAL RIGHTS
• BT-SELLG AUTHOR ROXANE GAY TO SPEAK AT 2022 DOUGLASS SPRG CONVOTN

ROXANE GAY

Roxane Gay’s wrg appears “Bt Amerin Mystery Stori 2014, ” “Bt Amerin Short Stori 2012, ” “Bt Sex Wrg 2012, ” A Public Space, McSweeney’s, T Hoe, Oxford Amerin, Amerin Short Fictn, Virgia Quarterly Review, and many others. She also has a newsletter, The Audacy, a podst, “The Roxane Gay Agenda, ” and an imprt, Roxane Gay Books, which publish three tl a year.

Roxane Gay, an ternatnally regnized wrer, edor, cultural cric and tor, has been selected as the next Gloria Steem Endowed Chair Media, Culture and Femist Studi at Rutgers Universy-New Bnswick. “I am tly honored to serve as the new Gloria Steem Endowed Chair at Rutgers, " Gay said.

The Rutgers Board of Governors approved Gay’s appotment. Gay’s pursu of social jtice mak her appotment pecially powerful as she brgs a mment to centerg unrreprented voic along wh ep and broad experience media. Jonathan Potter, the outgog SC&I an, said Gay "is cisive, analytic, disptive and fortable challengg thori of all kds.

ROXANE GAY APPOTED GLORIA STEEM ENDOWED CHAIR MEDIA, CULTURE AND FEMIST STUDI

As chair, Gay will lead workshops to explore wrg on cultural cricism, trma, creatg change and wrg across difference. "Beg a classroom wh Roxane Gay is an extraordary opportuny for stunts to grow as wrers and amplify their voic as a force for social transformatn, " said Rebec Mark, IWL director.

Gay is the thor of several books, cludg Ayi, An Untamed State, The New York Tim btsellg Bad Femist, the natnally btsellg Difficult Women and The New York Tim btsellg Hunger.

ROXANE GAY AND GLORIA STEEM UNPACK THE MEDIA, REPRODUCTIVE JTICE AND EQUAL RIGHTS

In 2019, Gay served as a printial fellow the Women and Genr Studi Department at Yale Universy, teachg a urse on wrg trma. Gay also has tght at Occintal College, Michigan Technologil Universy, Florida Atlantic Universy, Eastern Illois Universy and Purdue Universy, where she received tenure.

BT-SELLG AUTHOR ROXANE GAY TO SPEAK AT 2022 DOUGLASS SPRG CONVOTN

Dafna Lemish, the g terim an and Distguished Profsor of Journalism and Media Studi at SC&I, chaired the selectn mtee and noted Gay was chosen om an outstandg pool of ndidat. Event lnch Gay’s service as Rutgers’ Gloria Steem Endowed Chair Media, Culture and Femist Studi. New York Tim btsellg thor and cultural cric Roxane Gay tackled many prsg issu the news centered around civil rights, reproductive rights and social jtice durg a wi-rangg nversatn wh femist in Gloria Steem her first event as a member of the Rutgers faculty.

The discsn between two of the untry’s most proment morn femist figur served as the lnch of Gay’s three-year service as the universy’s Gloria Steem Endowed Chair Media, Culture and Femist Studi. Gay and Steem spoke of the tersectns and importance of wrg, journalism and media and their impact on mocracy.

“We've been talkg about femism and dog the work of femism for s, ” said Gay, a wrer, profsor, edor and New York Tim ntributg opn wrer. “It’s why we are currently havg the nversatns about trans equaly, women's bodi and our right to be unlegislated, ” Gay said.