Working to become the Beyoncé of Academia 

Education

• Ph.D., Media, Art, and Text, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2024
• M.A., Organizational Communications, Bowie State University, 2017
• B.A., English Creative Writing (Poetry), Old Dominion University, 2013 

Research Interests

Kay Coghill (they/them) researches the following: Online Gender-Based Violence, Digital Misogynoir, Black Popular Culture, Digital Black Girlhood Studies, and Hip Hop Feminism.

Select Publications

Articles (Public Scholarship)

• How Black Women Are Creating Harm Reduction Tactics Online

Articles (Peer-Reviewed)

• Coghill, K. Review Beyoncé in the World: Making Meaning with Queen Bey in Troubled Times, edited by Christina Baade and Kristin A. McGee, Journal of Popular Music (2022)
• Williams, B, Collier, J, Wadley, B, Stokes, T, Banks Coghill, K. “Should I Straighten My Hair?”: Narratives of Black College Women with Natural Hair, Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education (2022) 
• Coghill, K. Review of Digital Black Feminism, Peitho Journal (2022) 
• Coghill, K. A Love Letter to Alt Black Girls, Flow Journal (2022) 
• Coghill, K, Krishnasamy, A. A Seat at the Table: A Repetitive Narrative of Abuse, International Journal of Linguistics & Communication. (2021) 

Affiliations

• American Society of Criminology
• Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project
• Movement For Black Lives
• National Women's Studies Association
• Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Incorporated 

Courses

• GSWS/ENGL 391: Hip Hop Feminism and Poetry
• GSWS/SOCY/AFAM 391: Misogynoir in Digital Spaces
• GSWS/ENGL 236: Women in Literature
• ENGL 215: Reading Literature (Digital Storytelling)

Awards

• Spring 2024: 2024 PAN African Network 30 under 40
• Spring 2024: Presidential Awards for Community Multicultural Enrichment (PACME) 2024 Tristen Sloane Student Award
• Fall 2023: American Society of Criminology Division of Victimology Practitioner/Activist of the Year Award
• Spring 2022: Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Incorporated Golden Apple Educator Award
• Spring 2022: Virginia Commonwealth University Black History in the Making