Daelena Tinnin / University of Texas at Austin

Daelena Tinnin is a PhD student in the Radio-Television-Film department at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research generally looks at the intersections of black geography, the afterlife of slavery, and time and space through the visual and cultural modalities of media. Her MA thesis, Whither the Gender of Get Out: A Critique of the Cinematic (Im)Possibilities of the Black Political Imagination, investigated the entanglements of spatialized racial-sexual violence, limitation and excesses of media representation and the socioeconomic and cultural relations that make black images visible.