Adrienne Brown is an associate professor of English at the University of Chicago.&nbsp;She is the author of&nbsp;Race and Real Estate&nbsp;(co-edited with Valerie Smith, Oxford University Press,&nbsp;2015), The Black Skyscraper: Modern Architecture and the Shape of Race and Writing&nbsp;(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017) and a forthcoming edited collection of W. E. B. Du Bois’s&nbsp;speculative short fiction with Britt Rusert. She also writes about sound, performance, and pop music.

Adrienne Brown

New Formation: Janelle Monáe’s Radical Emotion Pictures

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers

Film

"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds." — Dizzy Gillespie

Music

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith

Gender &amp; Sexuality

Adrienne Brown is an associate professor of English at the University of Chicago.&nbsp;She is the author of&nbsp;Race and Real Estate&nbsp;(co-edited with Valerie Smith, Oxford University Press,&nbsp;2015), The Black Skyscraper: Modern Architecture and the Shape of Race and Writing&nbsp;(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017) and a forthcoming edited collection of W. E. B. Du Bois’s&nbsp;speculative short fiction with Britt Rusert. She also writes about sound, performance, and pop music.