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Kelli Moore

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Faculty Fellow

Assistant Professor, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development
Project: Dwelling the Courtroom: Critical Marginalia and the Criminal Courtroom Audience

I am Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, Communication at New York University where I examine the role of media, science, technology in the production of law. My ethnographic research on courtroom mediation examines the role of the image in facilitating the performance of testimony in domestic violence cases. The larger book project, Legal Spectatorship, draws on black studies, legal philosophy and visual culture to analyze courtroom rhetorical practices/haptic customs within ongoing debates about the subject of trauma and helplessness, facilitated communication, feminist jurisprudence, visual literacy, “post-racial” embodiment and digitality. The method of courtwatching employed for my first book project comes into closer focus in my research this year as a Center for the Humanities Fellow. Dwelling the Courtroom: Critical Marginalia and the Criminal Courtroom Audience engages a collaborative writing form in courtroom settings and is part of a larger research project toward a book-length, “Manifesto for Courtwatching.” Before joining MCC I earned my Ph.D. in Communication at the University of California, San Diego. I am an alumna of the University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (Rhetoric, Berkeley). My writing may be found at Anglistica, Feminist Surveillance Studies (Duke UP, 2015), the Journal of Visual Culture (In Press), Law and the Visible (U Mass Press, Forthcoming), and Reviews in Cultural Theory.