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Adrienne Adams

Ph.D. Student
Adrienne Adams
Pronouns They / Them / Theirs Email atadams@usc.edu

Biography

Born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, Adrienne Adams (they/them) is a Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies and Ethnicity. Their scholarship and event programming operates at the nexus of black aesthetics, elemental and environmental media studies, and science/technology studies.

Their dissertation, Black Obsolescence: Sex, Plastic, and the Affective Ruse of Recording Technology, examines the mechanics of plastic-based technologies—VHS tapes, the xerox machine, reel to reel tape recorder, cassette tape—alongside black diasporic feminist, queer, and intersex artistic production. In doing so, they seek to theorize how obsolescence and...

Education

  • B.A. Occidental College, 5/2017

  • Summary Statement of Research Interests

    Afro-Mexico, Black Aesthetics, Caribbean Cultural Studies, Feminist Technoscience, Histories of Technology, Racial Capitalism, Queer and Trans Studies