| Title | Sensing Stickiness |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | A conversation between Amber Jamilla Musser and Kerim Doğruel |
| Contributor | Amber Jamilla Musser(author) |
| Kerim Dogruel (author) | |
| Landing page | https://meson.press/books/sticky-films/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Amber Jamilla Musser and Kerim Doğruel |
| Publisher | meson press |
| Published on | 2026-02-02 |
| Print length | 13 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
Amber Jamilla Musser is a professor of English, Africana Studies, and Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies (BRES) at the CUNY Graduate Center. She writes and researches at the intersections of race, sexuality, and aesthetics. In addition to writing art reviews for The Brooklyn Rail, she has published widely in queer studies, black feminism, psychoanalysis, and critical theory. She is the author of Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism (NYU Press, 2014), Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance (NYU Press, 2018), and Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined (Duke University Press, 2024). Her collaborative projects include co-editing Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies (NYU Press, 2021) and co-hosting its accompanying podcast Feminist Keywords; special issues of Signs: A Journal of Feminist Theory on “Care and Its Complexities” and ASAP Journalon “Queer Form;” and the series Elements in Feminism and Critical Theory for Cambridge University Press.
Kerim Doğruel is a former member of the “Configurations of Film” Research Training Program. His research is concerned with the materiality of electronic and digital media media theory, and game studies. He has written and taught about on- and off-screen crystals in computer games, circuit board cities and the rhetoric of architectural models, and is currently working on the design and uses of media technologies in prisons.