Robert Barry

The Ohio State University, Department of Comparative Studies

Rob Barry, Jr. is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University. Through his research interest in Performance, Media, and Black Gender Studies, Rob employs counter-storytelling, autoethnography, and Black visual culture to interrogate historical processes of Black un/gendering in the afterlife of slavery. Specifically, he is concerned with how performances of Black masculinities are affective remnants of chattel slavery that animate, a/temporally, through diasporic spaces.

 

Research Interests: Black visual culture & media; Film studies; Black feminisms; Black sociality, age, and masculinities in the afterlife of slavery