Dr. Sasha Sanders
Known For: California Polytechnic SU
Dr. Sasha Sanders is an award-winning scholar-artist-educator and an Assistant Professor of Multi/cultural Performance Studies at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in the Department of Communication Studies. Dr. Sanders draws on autoethnography, performance, and Black feminist aesthetics to question and reimagine identity, power, and place. Dr. Sanders utilizes DIY art practices such as stop-motion animation, comics, fanart, and zines as reflexive embodied forms of democratized knowledge production. Her interdisciplinary scholarship can be found in Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, Women’s Studies in Communication, Text and Performance Quarterly, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, Journal of Autoethnography, and Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies.
Link to most recent (open access) publication, "Black Comics Studies Now," featured in Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/article/960644
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