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Simone C. Drake

Social Sciences · The Ohio State University

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Mid career · publishing since 2007
Race, History, and American SocietyCritical Race Theory in EducationAmerican and British Literature AnalysisLiterature: history, themes, analysisMedia Studies and Communication

Publications

26

Citations

35

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

18

Publishing since 2007

Research summary
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Simone C. Drake studies race and Black identity in American literature, film, and popular culture, with particular attention to how Black masculinity, feminism, and everyday cultural expression are represented and understood. Her work examines topics such as Black popular culture, cinema (including analysis of the film Moonlight), and Black feminist theory. This research sits at the intersection of literary studies, media studies, and critical race theory.

Race and Black identity in literature and filmBlack popular culture studiesBlack feminist theoryBlack masculinity and subject formationMedia and cultural criticism

Publication output has been uneven over the last decade, with gaps in some years and clusters of output in others, most notably a burst of publications in 2020 followed by continued but lower activity through 2024.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 0.8/year recently
17182019: 1 publication192020: 5 publications52021222023: 1 publication232024: 3 publications242526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Souls×1
  • Women Gender and Families of Color×1
  • Journal of the National Medical Association×1
  • Women s Studies×1
  • SSRN Electronic Journal×1
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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