Lauren Cramer / University of Toronto

Lauren McLeod Cramer is an Assistant Professor in the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto studying blackness, aesthetics, and popular culture. Her forthcoming book A Black Joint: Hip-Hop Visual Culture & the Architecture of Blackness (Duke University Press) explores the black popular culture as a spatial practice. Lauren is a founding member of liquid blackness, a research project on blackness and aesthetics, and is the co-Editor of liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies. Her writing has appeared in The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Discourse, The Black Scholar, Black Camera, Film Criticism, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Quarterly Review of Film and Video and the edited collections Writing for Screen Media (Routledge, 2019) and Summer of Soul (... Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) A Docalogue (Routledge, 2023).