Kayla Corbin

Graduate Student

Research Interests

Kayla Corbin is a fourth year Doctoral Candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Department of Communication Studies. Corbin’s research centralizes Black Feminist Studies at the intersection of cultural studies, performance studies and media studies. In addition to being a teaching fellow in the Department of Communication, she is also a teaching fellow in the Department of Women & Gender Studies. In 2024, Corbin was awarded a Chancellor’s award for excellence in Student Undergraduate Teaching. Corbin’s dissertation work looks at how misogynoir as social theory helps us to understand the ways in which heteropatriarchy structures violence against Black women. Corbin’s upcoming co-authored publication in the Journal of Social Semiotics, “Pawns of War: Misogynoir, Hip-Hop, and Cancel Culture” looks at Rap Beefs as a current media example of understudied sites of misogynoir.