Daphne Brooks, Date of Birth

Daphne Brooks

Date of Birth: 16-Nov-1968

Profession: university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Daphne Brooks (born 1968) is professor of African American studies and Theater Studies at Yale University.
She specializes in African American literary cultural performance studies, especially 19th century and trans-Atlantic culture.
She is a rock music lover and has attributed her research interests in black performance to being a fan of rock music since a very young age. She has written two books, Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850–1910 (Duke University Press, 2006) and Jeff Buckley’s Grace (Continuum, 2005).
She is currently working on her third book, titled Subterranean Blues: Black Women and Sound Subcultures- from Minstrelsy through the New Millennium (Harvard University Press).