Fanny Gravel-Patry

Fanny Gravel-Patry is a second-year doctoral student in Communication Studies at Concordia University with an M.A in Art History from Université de Montréal. Her research interests are visual culture, social media, human rights, affect, and the politics of care. Her doctoral dissertation is supervised by Krista Geneviève Lynes and focuses on the online visual presence of Black Lives Matter and the Syrian Refugee Crisis from a feminist perspective. Parallel to her academic career, she has been working as a community manager for non-profit cultural organizations in Montreal including Érudit, Occurrence espace d’art et d’essai contemporains and Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal.