Allison Page

Allison Page is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Rutgers University-Camden. Her first monograph, Media and the Affective Life of Slavery (University of Minnesota Press, 2022), examines the relationship between racial formation, affective governance, and media culture about U.S. chattel slavery. Her current book project historicizes how media technologies became positioned as a prime solution to racialized police violence in the United States. She received her PhD in Critical Media Studies with a graduate minor in American Studies from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Publications:

• Media and the Affective Life of Slavery (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022).

• “Un violador en tu camino: Reimagining the Political through Mediated Feminist Street Performance.” Co-authored with Jacquelyn Arcy. [50%] In Post-Politics and the Aesthetic Imagination, edited by Juan Meneses. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Forthcoming.

• “‘A Matter of Survival’: The National Welfare Rights Organization, Black Feminism, and a Critique of Work.” In Anti-Feminisms in Media Culture, edited by Diane Negra and Michele White, 45-59. New York and London: Routledge, 2022.

Media Appearances/Speaking Engagements:

• “‘America, This is Your Ride Along’: The Intersection of Transparency, Televisuality, and Race.” American Studies Association. Baltimore, MD. November 2024.

• “Police Media as Racial Pedagogy.” Eighth Biennial Interdisciplinary Conference on Race. Monmouth University, NJ. November 2024.

• “Media and the Affective Life of Slavery.” Book talk. Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication. November 2022. University of Pennsylvania.

Previous Organizations: 

• Old Dominion University

• Hampshire College

• Smith College

Accomplishments:

• Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award

• Joel S. Lewis Award for Excellence in Student Mentoring

• OSCLG Feminist Teacher-Mentor Award

Upcoming Projects:

• The Cultural Politics of Policing (second monograph)

As an interdisciplinary scholar of race, gender, and media culture, I research how power operates in relation to categories of difference. My study of power and difference shows up within my research, teaching, and service. My scholarship converges broader scholarly conversations from cultural studies and American studies with media frameworks. For instance, I draw upon work from Black studies to help theorize media culture, which enables me to engage questions about racial formation and racialized subjectivity that are often sidelined within media studies. My teaching, particularly my graduate teaching, has focused on race and media, feminist media studies, and media activism. As a teacher and mentor, I am mindful of power dynamics within the myriad spaces of college campuses, and I have worked to create classrooms that enable exploration and experimentation within a framework attentive to how power operates in the space. Finally, my service activities have likewise centered on identifying and striving to dismantle racialized and gendered hierarchies.