Kelli Moore

Assistant Professor, Media, Culture & Communication

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Kelli Moore examines the role of media technology in the production of legal and political knowledge. Her ethnographic research on courtroom mediation examines the role of the image in facilitating the performance of witness testimony in domestic violence cases. She is writing a monograph that draws on black feminist thought, legal philosophy and visual culture to analyze courtroom rhetorical practices/haptic customs within ongoing debates about the subject of trauma and helplessness, facilitated communication, feminist jurisprudence, visual literacy, “post-racial” embodiment and digitality. These debates form the basis of her second project, a study of the contribution of post-war black feminist literary criticism to contemporary media theory.