Grace D. Gipson, PhD
Black Future Feminist, Professor, Pop Culture Scholar, Black Creative, Scholar Activist
Dr. Gipson is an assistant professor in the Department of African American Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA).
She received her PhD in African American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining the Department of African American Studies at VCU in 2020, she served as a Frederick Douglass Institute (FDI) for African and African American Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Rochester and a Visiting Lecturer at Georgia State University.
As a Black future feminist/pop culture scholar, her research and teaching interests explore Black popular culture, digital humanities, representations of race and gender within comic books, Afrofuturism, and race and new media.
As a proud HBCU graduate and Black future feminist/pop culture scholar, her research interests include Black pop culture, race and gender in comics, Afrofuturism, and digital humanities. Her current book project, “Reclaiming Her Time: Exploring Black Futures in the Black Female Superhero” (under contract with University Press of Mississippi), seeks to examine and chronicle the layered experiences of Black superheroine characters and Black creatives’ narratives and how their identities transcend from comic book fiction to reality. Dr. Gipson is also the co-creator and writer of the Audible series, “From The Wiz to Wakanda: Afrofuturism in Popular Culture.”
Outside the classroom, you can find Dr. Gipson collecting comic books, ticket stubs to the latest movies, stamps on her international travel discoveries, co-hosting the video podcast Conversations with Beloved and Kindred, participating as part of the #BlackComicsChat podcast crew, and giving back to the community through a myriad of projects and organizations.
You can also follow her on Instagram @lovejones20 and Threads @GBreezy20 !!
Black Future Feminist 