Joining Green College in the fall of 2025, Dr Rizvana Bradley is an associate professor of Film and Media and affiliated faculty in the History of Art and the Center for Race and Gender at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr Bradley is the author of Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form (Stanford University Press, 2023), shortlisted for the 2024 MLA Prize for a First Book and named one of the Top Books of 2023 by FRIEZE. Her art criticism has been published in The Yale Review, Artforum, e-flux, Art in America, and Parkett, as well as numerous exhibition catalogs, including for the Serpentine Galleries, the New Museum, Whitechapel Gallery, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, and the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. She serves on the advisory boards of October and Camera Obscura. Dr Bradley has curated a number of academic arts symposia, including events at the British Film Institute, the Serpentine Galleries, the Stedelijk Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Dr Bradley will be presenting some of her research at 5:00 pm in the Coach House on Tuesday, October 21, with her talk titled "On Art and Negativity." To learn more about this event, visit the event page.

Dr Bradley will be in residence at Green College for the full month of October 2025.