SEX SCHOLAR. THOUGHT LEADER. FEMINIST EDUCATOR.

Mireille Miller-Young, PhD, is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara, Non-Resident Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University, and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry Berlin. An award-winning author and educator who goes by “DrMireille” on social media, Mireille (pronounced Mee-Ray) specializes in race, sexuality, and feminist politics. 

Dr. Mireille’s widely acclaimed and taught book, A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography (Duke University Press, 2014) was awarded the Sara A. Whaley Prize for Best Book on Women and Labor by the National Women’s Studies Association and the John Hope Franklin Prize for Best Book by the American Studies Association. She has published in numerous anthologies, academic journals, and news outlets, and has been interviewed for various books, articles, radio programs, and documentaries, including Netflix’s History of Swear Words starring Nicolas Cage (she appears in Episodes 3, 4, & 5).

Along with Constance Penley, Celine Parreñas Shimizu, and Tristan Taormino, Mireille is a co-editor of The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure, finalist for Lambda Literary’s Anthology of the Year, with translations now published in German and Spanish. She is also lead editor and of the recent volume Black Sexual Economies: Race and Sex in a Culture of Capital.

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