Associate Professor

Additional Campus Affiliations

Associate Professor, African American Studies

Highlighted Publications

Peoples, G. A. (2025). Goin' Viral: Uncontrollable Black Performance. (The New Black Studies Series). University of Illinois Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jj.30297406

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Recent Publications

Peoples, G. A. (2025). Goin' Viral: Uncontrollable Black Performance. (The New Black Studies Series). University of Illinois Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jj.30297406

Peoples, G. A. (2021). Play (Loudly): The Racialized Erotics of Blacksound in Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 42(1), 109-140. https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2021.0008

Peoples, G. A. (2020). The forgotten Kelly Dodson: viral performance and the interplay of excess and erasure. Women and Performance, 30(2), 170-194. https://doi.org/10.1080/0740770X.2020.1869412

Peoples, G. (2018). On Being African . . . American. In M. Kibona Clark, P. Mnyandu, & L. L. Azalia (Eds.), Pan African Spaces: Essays on Black Transnationalism (pp. 151-160). Lexington Books. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978724679.ch-14

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