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Dr. Regina N. Bradley is an award-winning writer and researcher of the Black American South. She is an alumna Nasir Jones HipHop Fellow (Hutchins Center, Harvard University, Spring 2016), Associate Professor of English and African Diaspora Studies at Kennesaw State University, faculty editor for Southern Cultures journal, and co-host of the critically acclaimed southern hip hop podcast Bottom of the Map with music journalist Christina Lee.  

Dr. Bradley's areas of research and expertise include 20th and 21st century African American Literature, southern studies, southern hip hop studies, and sound studies.

A prominent public voice and leading scholar on contemporary southern Black life and hip hop culture, Dr. Bradley is the author of the critically acclaimed book Chronicling Stankonia: the Rise of the Hip Hop South and the editor of An OuKast Reader. Her work has also been featured on a range of media outlets including Netflix’s hip hop docuseries Hip-Hop Evolution, Washington Post, NPR, and Atlanta Journal Constitution

 

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