Kishonna Gray
Associate Professor, Writing Rhetoric, Digital Studies
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
Dr. Kishonna L. Gray is an Associate Professor in Writing, Rhetoric, Digital Studies at the University of Kentucky. She is an interdisciplinary, intersectional, digital media scholar whose areas of research include identity, performance and online environments, embodied deviance, cultural production, video games, and Black Cyberfeminism.
Dr. Gray is the author of Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital Gaming (LSU Press, 2020). She is also the author of Race, Gender, & Deviance in Xbox Live (Routledge, 2014), and the co-editor of two volumes on culture and gaming: Feminism in Play (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2018) and Woke Gaming (University of Washington Press, 2018). Dr. Gray has published in a variety of outlets across disciplines and has also featured in public outlets such as The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The New York Times.
Selected Publication
Edited by Lori Kido Lopez
Dec 2020 • Race and Media: Critical Approaches 241-251 • NYU Press
Black Feminism, Ethnography, and Methodological Challenges Online and IRL
Feb 2020 • The SAGE Handbook of Media and Migration 19
Digital Challenges to Oppression and Social Injustice
Kishonna L. Gray and David J. Leonard
Nov 2018 • University of Washington Press
Examining Narratives of Controlling Black Bodies in Contemporary Gaming
Feb 2018 • Velvet Light Trap 81:62-66
Black Lesbian Identity Development and Community Building in Xbox Live
Nov 2017 • Journal of Lesbian Studies 22(3):282-296
Nov 2016 • Digital Sociologies 355-368 • Policy Press
Exploring the Liberatory Potential of Black Cyberfeminist Theory
Edited by Rebecca Lind
Jan 2015 • Produsing Theory in a Digital World 2.0: The Intersection of Audiences and Production in Contemporary Theory 2:175-192 • Peter Lang
Jun 2013 • Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology 2
Media Appearance
Dec 2020 • New York Times
Oct 2020 • Good Morning America
Aug 2020 • Everyday Analysis
Mar 2020 • NowThis News
Oct 2019 • How Do You Like It So Far?