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Dr. Regina N. Bradley is an alumna Nasir Jones HipHop Fellow (Harvard University, Spring 2016) and an Assistant Professor of African American Literature at Armstrong State University in Savannah, GA. Her expertise and research interests include post-Civil Rights African American literature, hip hop culture, race and the contemporary U.S. South, and sound studies. She earned a B.A. in English from Albany State University (GA), an M.A. in African American and African Diaspora Studies from Indiana University, and a Ph.D. in African American Literature from Florida State University.

 

Dr. Bradley's current book-length project, Chronicling Stankonia: OutKast and the Rise of the Hip Hop South (under contract, UNC Press), explores how Atlanta, GA hip hop duo OutKast influences conversations about the Black American South after the Civil Rights Movement. Chronicling Stankonia stems from her critically acclaimed series OutKasted Conversations, a YouTube dialogue series about the impact of OutKast on popular culture. Dr. Bradley’s work on popular culture and race is published or forthcoming in south: an interdisciplinary journal, Meridians, Comedy Studies, ADA, Journal of Ethnic American Literature, Palimpsest, and Current Musicology. Dr. Bradley's public scholarship is featured on a range of news media outlets including Washington Post, NPR, NewsOne, SoundingOut!,  and Creative Loafing Atlanta. 

 

In addition to her scholarship, Dr. Bradley is an acclaimed fiction writer. Her first short story collection, Boondock Kollage: New Stories from the Contemporary Black South, is forthcoming from Peter Lang press. Her short story “Beautiful Ones” is nominated for a 2018 Pushcart Prize in short fiction. Her other stories have been featured in Obsidian, Transition, and Oxford American.

 

 

Dr. Bradley can be reached via Twitter (@redclayscholar) or through her website, www.redclayscholar.com.