Joe-Ann Chavry is a PhD researcher in Media and Communications at LSE. There, she studies how Black Mauritian (Creole) femininity is constituted online. Through this research project, she seeks to understand how black feminine subjects are constituted in contemporary Mauritius, given the country’s history of enslavement alongside its layered colonial legacy, both tethered to Indian Ocean geopolitics.

Before starting her PhD, she worked in the advertising and communications industry in Mauritius and started her baking company, A Cup of Joe. She has also written a number of opinion pieces for Le Mauricien.

Her research integrates feminist media studies, cultural studies, and sociology, with a particular interest in looking at the complex ways in which politics shape – and are shaped – by minority groups in and through their use of communication technologies.

She graduated with a distinction from LSE’s Department of Media and Communications for her MSc, and before that with a first-class Honours for her BA at The University of Melbourne, Australia. In London, she is also a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) at LSE.

Her PhD is supported by a scholarship from LSE.