
In 2016, she was awarded the Northeast Council of Graduate Schools Excellence in Teaching Award for Masters Level Instruction. Turner Prize for the top journal article in any time period in African American Literature or Culture. In 2015, the African American Review awarded her its Darwin T. Martin’s Press, 2018) and co-editor of The Crunk Feminist Collection (The Feminist Press, 2017).Ĭooper is also the recipient of numerous awards for her research, teaching, and service. Cooper is also the author of the forthcoming Eloquent Rage: One Black Feminist’s Refusal to Bow Down (St. She is a regular contributor at and co-founder of the Crunk Feminist Collective and blog. Her work and words have appeared at MSNBC, BET, NPR, PBS, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, TV Guide, New York Magazine,, The, and Al Jazeera America, among many others.

Cooper is a widely sought-after public speaker at universities throughout the country and an in-demand commentator for radio, podcasts, and television.

She teaches courses on Black feminist theory, Black Intellectual Thought, Hip Hop, Gender and Media. Cooper, a newly tenured Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University. The author of Beyond Respectability is Brittney C.
