Rob Barry, Jr. is an educator, cultural critic, and theorist from the Westside of Chicago, IL. A recent Ph.D. graduate from the Department of Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University, Rob employs Black critical theory, Black feminisms, Black masculinities, and Black visual culture & media to examine historical processes of Black un/gendering in the afterlife of slavery. Specifically, Rob's research is concerned with the ways in which embodiments and performances of Black genders function as affective remnants of chattel slavery, animating and haunting those traditionally and non/traditionally rendered masculine across diasporic spaces a/temporally. 

Publications 

Barry, Robert. “CONSTRUCTING DIGITAL DIASPORIC SPACES AND REFRAMING BLACK MASCULINITY THROUGH INSECURE’S LAWRENCEHIVE.” In Hashtag Activism Interrogated and Embodied: Case Studies on Social Justice Movements, edited by MELISSA AMES and KRISTI MCDUFFIE, 175–90. University Press of Colorado, 2023.

Barry, Robert. Review of No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black & Free in America, by Darnell L. Moore. Spectrum: A Journal on Black Men 8, no. 1 (2020): 157-160. https://dx.doi.org/10.2979/spectrum.8.1.11.

Barry, Robert. "Lemonade, gin, and juice: the performance and deconstruction of black masculinity from n**gers to negus" (2017).College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations. 236.
https://via.library.depaul.edu/etd/236

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