About Anna Lindner

Anna (MA, Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University) is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. A critical/cultural media historian, she uses critical discourse analysis in her dissertation, which assesses Spanish colonial letters, official reports, and news publications about Black rebellion in mid-nineteenth-century Cuba. Her other research interests include formations of cultural identity, racialized linguistics and education, intersectional feminisms and queer studies, critical whiteness studies, and racial justice activism. At Wayne State, she is a member of the Antiracist Language and Literacy Practices research team, which conducts university-wide studies on the cultural identity and language practices of students and faculty, and the Media History research team, which investigates the rhetoric of nineteenth-century US, Caribbean, and Latin American newspapers. Her recent work includes a collaborative essay, "'If Ever Saints Wept and Hell Rejoiced, It Must Have Been Over the Passage of That Law': The 1850 Fugitive Slave Act in Detroit River Borderland Newspapers, 1851-1852," published by Journalism History in January 2023, and a forthcoming essay on queer identity and post-racialism in the Netflix series Sense8, to be published by Visual Communication Quarterly.