Daphne A. Brooks is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, Music, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. She is also the co-founder and co-director of Yale’s Black Sound and the Archive working group.

A scholar whose work engages with questions of race, gender, performance, and popular music culture, Brooks is the author of three books: Jeff Buckley’s Grace (2005); Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910 (2006); and Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound (Harvard UP 2021).