Ruby Tapia

Associate Prof. of English/Women’s Studies, Director Critical Carceral Visualities Team. Ruby Tapia’s research and teaching engage the intersections of photography theory, feminist and critical race theory, and critical prison studies. She is co-editor of Interrupted Life: Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States (University of California, 2010) and author of the forthcoming The Camera in the Cage (Fordham University Press). She is faculty director of the Critical Carceral Visualities team, which is building tools that merge critical visual methodologies with abolitionist imperatives.