Mireille Miller-Young

Mireille Miller-Young, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. She researches and teaches about race, gender, and sexuality in US history, popular culture, and the sex industries. Her manuscript, A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography (Duke University Press, 2014) examines African American women’s labor in pornography. A former UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, she is a founder of the New Sexualities Research Focus Group at UC Santa Barbara and the co-convener of the Black Sexual Economies Project at Washington University School of Law. Dr. Miller-Young has published in numerous academic journals and books including Blackness and Sexuality, Pornification: Sex and Sexuality in Media Culture, C’Lick Me: A Netporn Studies Reader, Meridians, Sexualities, Colorlines Magazine, Ms. Magazine, Re-Public.com, The New York Times, and $pread, a sex worker magazine. With Constance Penley, Celine Parreñas Shimizu, and Tristan Taormino, she is an editor of The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure (The Feminist Press, 2013).