Antoine Hardy
Assistant Professor
Speech, Communications and Theatre Arts
EMAIL: ahardy@bmcc.cuny.edu
Office: S628J
Office Hours:
Phone: +1 (212) 346 8539
Dr. Hardy’s research and teaching interests revolve around issues of culture,community and communication in hip-hop and black digital/public rhetoric.
He is a founding member of the first annual hip-hop conference at a HBCU with Scholars of the Culture at Wiley College, and the founder, director and lead facilitator of a city-wide community dialogue program in Miami.
Active in community outreach Dr. Hardy is a former board member of the Miami Urban Debate League and member of the City of Miami Together for Children Violence steering Committee conducting qualitative research ethnographies in at risk communities. Hardy has consulted for organizations such as Harper Books on proper research practices , Pen America on conflict communication in the classroom and community, as well as city government workshops on implicit bias and micro-aggressions. On the creative side, Hardy is a former manager of artist/producers and has done press coverage at events such as Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival ., Dilla Day and SXSW . Most recently,Dr. Hardy executive produced and A&R’d the 2021 Bandcamp release by George Suggs Youth Wasted on the Young.
Expertise
Degrees
University of South Florida
PhD., Communications
Wake Forest University
M.A., Communication and Rhetoric
Courses Taught
Research and Projects
Dr. Hardy’s work on hip-hop, reality tv and digital humanities in journals such as Critical Studies in Media Communication , Social Media and Society as well as his book Loving the Cool which focuses on hip-hop masculinity and “love songs” at the turn of the 21st century. On the public side, Hardy recently published a MF DOOM piece for Hanif Abdurraqib’s public online journal 68to85.com.
