Dr. Erin Gray is a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in African American Studies at UC Irvine. Specializing in the intersections of politics, aesthetics, and critical theory, her current research focuses on gendered racial formations within and against the photographic history of global white supremacy. Mobilizing black feminist theory, Marxist critical theory, affect studies, and psychoanalytic and new materialist currents in visual and performance studies, her current book project theorizes the lynching photograph as a dialectical object and moving image that illuminates anti-black terror’s constitutive relationship to racial capitalism and U.S empire. Dr. Gray has published articles on feminist poetics in Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory and The International Feminist Journal of Politics. Her writing on U.S. lynching culture has appeared in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, and her analyses of policing and the Black Lives Matter movement have been published in Mute and Truthout. She has articles on Cold War-era black left feminist anti-lynching defense campaigns and contemporary black cinematic praxis forthcoming in The Black Scholar and The Journal of Global Slavery.